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Definition of Depth
1. Noun. The extent downward or backward or inward. "Depth of a closet"
Exact synonyms: Deepness
Generic synonyms: Extent
Specialized synonyms: Deepness, Profoundness, Profundity, Draft, Draught, Penetration, Sounding, Shallowness
Attributes: Deep, Shallow, Deep, Shallow
Generic synonyms: Extent
Specialized synonyms: Deepness, Profoundness, Profundity, Draft, Draught, Penetration, Sounding, Shallowness
Attributes: Deep, Shallow, Deep, Shallow
2. Noun. Degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.
Generic synonyms: Degree, Grade, Level
Specialized synonyms: Profoundness, Profundity, Shallowness, Superficiality
Specialized synonyms: Profoundness, Profundity, Shallowness, Superficiality
3. Noun. (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part. "Signals received from the depths of space"
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Specialized synonyms: Back Of Beyond
Generic synonyms: Part, Region
Specialized synonyms: Back Of Beyond
Generic synonyms: Part, Region
4. Noun. (usually plural) a low moral state. "He had sunk to the depths of addiction"
5. Noun. The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.
Exact synonyms: Astuteness, Deepness, Profoundness, Profundity
Generic synonyms: Sapience, Wisdom
Derivative terms: Deep, Profound, Profound
Generic synonyms: Sapience, Wisdom
Derivative terms: Deep, Profound, Profound
6. Noun. The attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense. "The depth of his emotion"
Generic synonyms: Attribute
Definition of Depth
1. n. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
2. n. The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.
Definition of Depth
1. deepness [n -S] - See also: deepness
Medical Definition of Depth
1. Distance from the surface downward. (05 Mar 2000)