sound

• (a) financially secure and safe
  • sound investments
  • a sound economy
• (s) exercising or showing good judgment
  • healthy scepticism
  • a healthy fear of rattlesnakes
  • the healthy attitude of French laws
  • healthy relations between labor and management
  • an intelligent solution
  • a sound approach to the problem
  • sound advice
  • no sound explanation for his decision
  levelheaded, level-headed, intelligent, healthy,
• (a) in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay
  • a sound timber
  • the wall is sound
  • a sound foundation
• (s) in excellent physical condition
  • good teeth
  • I still have one good leg
  • a sound mind in a sound body
  good,
• (s) logically valid
  • a sound argument
  reasoned, well-grounded,
• (s) having legal efficacy or force
  • a sound title to the property
  effectual, legal,
• (s) free from moral defect
  • a man of sound character
• (s) (of sleep) deep and complete
  • a heavy sleep
  • fell into a profound sleep
  • a sound sleeper
  • deep wakeless sleep
  wakeless, profound, heavy,
• (s) thorough
  • a sound thrashing

Nouns

• (n) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
  • the sound of rain on the roof
  • the beautiful sound of music
• (n) the subjective sensation of hearing something
  • he strained to hear the faint sounds
  auditory sensation,
• (n) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
  • falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them
• (n) the sudden occurrence of an audible event
  • the sound awakened them
• (n) the audible part of a transmitted signal
  • they always raise the audio for commercials
  audio,
• (n) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language speech sound, phone,
• (n) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water strait,
• (n) a large ocean inlet or deep bay
  • the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast

Verbs

• (v) appear in a certain way
  • This sounds interesting
• (v) make a certain noise or sound
  • She went "Mmmmm"
  • The gun went "bang"
  go,
• (v) give off a certain sound or sounds
  • This record sounds scratchy
• (v) announce by means of a sound
  • sound the alarm
• (v) utter with vibrating vocal chords vocalize, voice, vocalise,
• (v) cause to sound
  • sound the bell
  • sound a certain note
• (v) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line fathom,

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Words of close approximity