(a)deeprelatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply“a deep breath”, “a deep sigh”, “deep concentration”, “deep emotion”, “a deep trance”, “in a deep sleep”
(a)deephaving great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination“a deep well”, “a deep dive”, “deep water”, “a deep casserole”, “a deep gash”, “deep massage”, “deep pressure receptors in muscles”, “deep shelves”, “a deep closet”, “surrounded by a deep yard”, “hit the ball to deep center field”, “in deep space”, “waist-deep”
(s)cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifyingof an obscure nature“the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms”, “a deep dark secret”, “the inscrutable workings of Providence”, “in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life” (Rachel Carson), “rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands”
(s)abstruse, deep, reconditedifficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge“the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them”, “a deep metaphysical theory”, “some recondite problem in historiography”