Definition of "profoundly"

profoundly

/pɹəˈfaʊndli/

adverb
comparative more profoundly, superlative most profoundly
1. (manner) With depth, meaningfully.
2. (evaluative) Very importantly.
3. (degree) Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.
  Quotations
  Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
  In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
  2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, page 11