| Knee-deep 1. (a.) Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. 2. (a.) Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. Thesaurus Entries cursory, deep, deep-cut, deep-down, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-reaching, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking, deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deepish, deepsome, depthless, epidermal, jejune, knee-deep, light, not deep, on the surface, profound, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, skin-deep, slight, superficial, surface, thin, trivial, unprofound |