deep down

Adverb

Meaning

in reality

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

at heart inside at bottom in spite of appearance within in the end substantially secretly internally fundamentally intrinsically intuitively instinctively inwardly innately
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Antonyms

outside apparently publicly seemingly evidently ostensibly
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Examples

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. Robert Orben

My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks. Emir Kusturica

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. Jorge Luis Borges

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. Carl Jung

Deep down all men are alike -- and that is the problem. Chinese Proverb

Deep down everyone's a ferengi. Klingon Proverb

Close letter words and terms

deep dislike deep dive deep diver deep down in one's heart deep down inside deep draft