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profundifies

profundifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of profundify.

Meaning of profundify

Verb

profundify (third-person singular simple present profundifies, present participle profundifying, simple past and past participle profundified)

  1. (humorous, often) To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.
    • But where's the use of invoking the Muses, when they are provoked by droppings of inspiration from a stone, in which the measure and the meaning are most happily profundified?1821 May, “Hildebrand Snapdragon”, “Manchester versus 'Manchester Poetry'”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume IX, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood; T[homas] Cadell and W. Davies, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    profundicate

Questions about profundifies

What is profundifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Profundifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of profundify.

Words near profundifies in the dictionary

  1. profundicate
  2. profundicated
  3. profundicates
  4. profundicating
  5. profundified
  6. profundifies
  7. profundify
  8. profundifying
  9. profundities
  10. profunditude
  11. profundity

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