profundicate

Verb

To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

profundify

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