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profundicate

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /pɹəˈfʌndɪˌkeɪt/

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verb

Meaning 1

To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

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History

Etymology

Latin profundus (“profound”) + -icate. Apparently coined by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010) in When in Doubt, Mumble: A Bureaucrat's Handbook, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972, →OCLC.