profundicate
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfʌndɪˌkeɪt/
The English word “profundicate” has 1 meaning listed here.
verb
- To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.
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.
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