Depth

English

Noun

Depth (plural Depths)

1. The vertical distance below a surface; the amount that something is deep.

   Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.

2. The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
3. (figuratively) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, or situation.

   The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.

   The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.

4. (computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
5. (art, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.

   The depth of field in this picture is amazing.

6. (literary, usually plural) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)

   The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.

7. (literary, usually plural) A very remote part.

   Into the depths of the jungle...

   In the depths of the night,

8. The most severe part.

   in the depth of the crisis.

   in the depths of winter.

9. (statistics) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.

Synonyms

• deepness

Related terms

• deep
• depth charge
• in depth
• out of one's depth

Adjectives for Depth

generous; unguessed; shielding; protective; underlying; deceptive.

Verbs for Depth

advance from—s; attain—; bear through—s; descend to—s; discover in—s; explore—s; foul in—s; gauge—; harbor in—; judge—; launch into—s; measure—; penetrate to—of; pitch to—s; preserve from—s; probe—s; raise from—s; reach—; reflect in—; repose in—; rise from—; scour—; search—; thrust into—; venture beyond—; —closes round; —covers; —embraces; — exceeds.

Thesaurus

French pitch, Sophia, abstruseness, abysm, abyss, acumen, amplitude, area, astuteness, bigness, bodily size, body, bottomless pit, brain, breadth, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, broad-mindedness, bulk, caliber, cavity, chasm, classical pitch, coarseness, complexity, comprehensively, corpulence, coverage, crater, crevasse, deep, deeply, deepness, deeps, depths, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance through, draft, drop, erudition, expanse, expansion, extension, extensively, extent, fatness, gauge, girth, good understanding, greatness, grossness, gulf, height, high pitch, hole, hollow, in detail, innerness, inness, insight, intellect, intelligence, intensity, intensively, interiority, internality, internalization, intricacy, intrinsicality, introversion, intuition, inwardness, keenness, key, largeness, length, low pitch, lowness, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, mellow wisdom, nadir, new philharmonic pitch, note, obscurity, penetration, perception, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, philharmonic pitch, philosophical pitch, pit, pitch, profoundly, profoundness, profundity, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, reconditeness, register, richness, ripe wisdom, sagacity, sageness, sapience, scale, scope, seasoned understanding, sense, shaft, sharpness, size, sound understanding, sounding, spread, standard pitch, strength, the third dimension, thickness, thoroughly, tonality, tone, tune, understanding, vividness, volume, well, width, wisdom, wiseness, yawning abyss

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English deop

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛpθ

Translations

vertical distance below a surface

Armenian: խորություն (hy) (xorut’yun), խորք (hy) (xork’) Bulgarian: дълбочина (bg) f. Czech: hloubka (cs) f. Dutch: diepte (nl) f. Esperanto: profundo (eo) Faroese: dýpi (fo) n. Finnish: syvyys (fi) French: profondeur (fr) f. German: Tiefe (de) f. Greek: βάθος (el) (vathos) n.

Hebrew: עומק /ʿomeq/ m. Indonesian: kedalaman (id) Italian: profondità (it) f. Japanese: 深さ (ふかさ, fukasa) Lithuanian: gylis m., gilumas m. Occitan: prigondor f. Portuguese: profundidade (pt) f. Spanish: profundidad (es) f. Swahili: kina (sw), kiini (sw) Swedish: djup (sv) n. (1,2), vidd (sv) c., (3) färgdjup (sv) (4)