Read the following excerpt from Michael W. McConnell’s Oral Argument to the U. S. Supreme Court, Horne vs. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court:
Thank you for being willing to hear this little case a second time. It does involve some important principles and the livelihoods of Marvin and Laura Horne, and more indirectly, hundreds of small California raisin growers will be profoundly affected.

Use context clues, knowledge of prefixes, or a dictionary to select the best definition for McConnell’s use of profoundly.

the deep sea
obscurely
to locate or obtain
to a deep or far-reaching extent