profundifying

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