A derogatory term used to describe people who consider themselves as being part of an intellectual or cultural elite. This phenomenon tends to manifest itself in the narcissistic manner such people dress and speak; as well as in their affectedly highbrow artistic and associational preferences.
guy 1) 'what's with all these anorexic, pseudo-post modern , painfully image-obsessed artistic cunts in this dingy alley? guy 2) 'it's just st jeromes dude. they're profound'.
In statistics, when a hypothesis test produces a pvalue between .001 and .002, a rejection on the null hypothesis must be declared as a ‘profound rejection’.
A fuckass word that professors like using way too much. Used by professors who think they’re smarter than everyone else and has an hard time bringing their level down to students. Often over used to the point of losing all meaning.