🎨 Fairly strong color 🧠 Somewhat thoughtful 🌊 Moderately deep

deepish

4.4

An idea or comment that is fairly serious and makes you think

adjective
/ˈdiːpɪʃ/

: profundo

His thoughts were deepish, reflecting his curious nature yet lacking extreme insight.

Examples

"As I thought," he confirmed, in a deepish, pleasant voice, with an accompanying nod.

Fiction book (1999)
The water in the lake was a lovely deepish blue, perfect for swimming on a hot day.
She wore a deepish green dress that complemented her eyes beautifully.

Antonyms

superficial

94 5.6

Not thorough and only about what is obvious, not deep

How Deep

profound

123 6.3

deep

603 1.0

deepish

4.4

shallow

155 1.6

Surface Forms

deepish positive

Morphology

deepish = deep (transparent) = deep + ish

Clear derivation from 'deep' with the suffix '-ish' giving a 'somewhat' or 'moderately' sense.

Etymology

Deepish comes from deep plus -ish, which means 'somewhat' or 'kind of', like smallish. So a deepish idea is a little bit profound — it makes you think but is still easy to understand.