sound

About 82.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Healthy.

   He was safe and sound.

2. adjective Complete, solid, or secure.

   Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.

3. adjective Having the property of soundness.
4. adjective Good; acceptable; decent.

   How are you? —I'm sound.

5. adjective Quiet and deep.

   Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.

6. adjective Heavy; laid on with force.

   a sound beating

7. adjective Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

   a sound title to land

8. adverb Soundly.

Similar words

healthy strong intelligent good dependable sensible levelheaded substantial well-grounded reasonable

Often followed by

of and like in is as that to waves

Word family

soundable sounded sounder soundest sounding soundly soundness soundnesses sounds