Definition

Adjective: - Profound, deep, erudite: Describes knowledge, learning, or scholarship that is extremely deep, extensive, and thorough in a specialized field. It implies a mastery that comes from extensive study and understanding.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Giáo sư ấy có kiến thức uyên thâm về lịch sử Việt Nam. (That professor has profound knowledge of Vietnamese history.)
  • Một học giả uyên thâm. (An erudite scholar.)
  • Công trình nghiên cứu của ông thể hiện sự hiểu biết uyên thâm. (His research work demonstrates profound understanding.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is almost exclusively used in formal, academic, or literary contexts to praise someone's intellectual depth. It is not used for casual or superficial knowledge.

Variants and Related Words

• Uyên bác (adj): Also means erudite or learned, often used interchangeably with , though can sometimes emphasize breadth as well as depth of knowledge.
• Uyên nguyên (adj, literary): Deep and fundamental; pertaining to the deepest origins or roots.

Synonyms

• Profound: Having deep insight or understanding.
• Erudite: Characterized by extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books.
• Learned: Having much knowledge acquired by study.
• Deep: Of great intensity or profundity (in an intellectual sense).

Related Idioms

• Học vấn uyên thâm: Profound learning/erudition.
  • Ông được kính trọng vì học vấn uyên thâm. (He is respected for his profound erudition.)
• Kiến thức uyên thâm: Profound knowledge.
  • Cô ấy có kiến thức uyên thâm về ngôn ngữ học. (She has profound knowledge of linguistics.)

adj

1. profound