Definition of depth

"depth" in the noun sense

1. depth, deepness

the extent downward or backward or inward

"the depth of the water"

"depth of a shelf"

"depth of a closet"

2. depth

degree of psychological or intellectual profundity

3. depth

usually plural) a low moral state

"he had sunk to the depths of addiction"

4. astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness

the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

5. depth

the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense

"the depth of his breathing"

"the depth of his sighs"

"the depth of his emotion"

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Quotations for depth

We have deep depth. [ Yogi Berra ]

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Where there is great height there is great depth. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

God approves the depth, but not the tumult, of the soul. [ Wordsworth ]

What the orators want in depth, they give you in length. [ Montesquieu ]

The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult of the soul. [ Wordsworth ]

Shallow wits censure every thing that is beyond their depth. [ Proverb ]

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth. [ Victor Hugo ]

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depth of the soul. [ Jean Paul ]

From the lowliest depth there is a path to the loftiest height. [ Carlyle ]

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. [ Juvenal ]

To attain the height and depth of Thy eternal ways, all human thoughts come short. [ Milton ]

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops, which give such a depth to the morning meadow. [ Emerson ]

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. [ Democritus ]

Every lie, great or small, is the brink of a precipice, the depth of which nothing but omniscience can fathom. [ Reade ]

The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm. [ Goethe ]

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. [ Francis Bacon ]

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine: those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth. [ Colton ]

Out of a horrible depth the height steps boldly forth; out of a hard shell virtue fights its way to the light; pain is the birth (medium) of the higher natures. [ Tiedge ]

Those eyes, soft and capricious as a cloudless sky, whose azure depth their color emulates, must needs be conversant with upward looks - prayer's voiceless service. [ Wordsworth ]

I have ventured like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, this many summers in a sea of glory, but far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride at length broke under me. [ Shakespeare ]

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. [ Lowell ]

Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment. [ Carlyle ]

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete. [ Goethe ]

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne, and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]

depth in Scrabble®

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depth in Words With Friends™

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Words within the letters of depth

2 letter words in depth (3 words)

3 letter words in depth (3 words)

5 letter words in depth (1 word)

depth + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence depth

Words that start with depth (4 words)

Words with depth in them (2 words)

Words that end with depth (3 words)

Word Growth involving depth

Shorter words in depth

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Longer words containing depth

depthless depthlessness

depths multidepths

indepth

multidepth multidepths