depth
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6.3
- noun
- /dɛpθ/
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profundidades
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery, poverty, and addiction?
- plumb the depths
- depths of sin
- descend to the depths
These rights limit the depth of the defeat we can suffer.
- These rights limit the depth of the defeat we can suffer.
- But for me, like that is a depth of despair that is a pretty low, low.
- So it's quite likely that this winter we'll be right back in the in the depths of depression.
- But I wasn't dragging her down the, the, the, to the depths of human nature.
- Well, when you're in the depths of it, because there's different phases, right?
- It would be well be delving into the dredges depths.
Examples
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With this thought, Gerald experienced bleak depths of self-knowledge he had never plumbed before.
Fiction book (1998) -
On his journey, Gilgamesh discovers the depths of his loneliness in the Valley of the Precious Stones.
Academic text (2001) -
But for me, like that is a depth of despair that is a pretty low, low.
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I knew my friends were down in the depths with me.
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So it's quite likely that this winter we'll be right back in the in the depths of depression.
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There's just no knowing the depths of that man's evil.
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Well, when you're in the depths of it, because there's different phases, right?
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Boris Yeltsin's rise from the depths of unpopularity to win Russia's presidential election.
Academic text (1996) -
What do you think is the greatest depth of sadness a person can feel?
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During the meeting, we discussed the depth of challenges faced by the community.
Synonyms
1
3.9
The lowest parts of a place or a feeling
1
9.3
A state of being extremely deep and seeming to have no end
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.6
A way of studying hidden thoughts and feelings to understand people's behavior and help them in therapy
- Archaic
A device that throws explosive charges into the sea to attack submarines from a ship
- Specialized
A set of levels showing how difficult thinking tasks are for students
- Specialized
A device that uses sound waves to measure how deep water or things under it are
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word depth comes from deep, so when people talk about the 'depths' of something they mean the very 'bottom' or lowest state. That's why we say someone reached the depth of despair or moral decline when they are at their worst.