🎨 Fairly strong color 🌊 Moderately deep 🧠 Somewhat thoughtful

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

87 5.6

Not thorough and only about what is obvious, not deep

How Deep

profound

96 6.3

deep

∞ 1.0

deepish

4.4

shallow

145 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.