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Adjective sound has 9 senses
- sound - financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy"
Antonyms: unsound, bad, insecure, risky, high-risk, speculative, long, wildcat
- healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, sound - 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"
Antonym: unreasonable (indirect, via reasonable)
- sound - in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay; "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation"
Antonyms: unsound, corroded, decayed, rotten, rotted
- good, sound - in excellent physical condition; "good teeth"; "I still have one good leg"; "a sound mind in a sound body"
Antonym: unhealthy (indirect, via healthy)
- reasoned, sound, well-grounded - reflects weight of sound argument or evidence; "a sound argument"
Antonym: invalid (indirect, via valid)
- legal, sound - having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property"
Antonym: invalid (indirect, via valid)
- sound - free from moral defect; "a man of sound character"
Antonym: unrighteous (indirect, via righteous)
- heavy, profound, sound, wakeless - (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
Antonym: shallow (indirect, via deep)
- sound - thorough; "a sound thrashing"
Antonyms: incomplete, uncomplete (indirect, via complete)
Antonym: incomplete (indirect, via complete)
Adverbial sound has 1 sense
- soundly, sound - deeply or completely; "slept soundly through the storm"; "is sound asleep"
Noun sound has 8 senses
- sound - the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music"
--1 is a kind of sound property
Antonyms: silence, quiet
--1 has particulars: noisiness, racketiness; ring; unison; voice
- sound, auditory sensation - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"
--2 is a kind of sensation, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
--2 has particulars:
- sound - mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium; "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"
--3 is a kind of mechanical phenomenon
--3 has particulars: ultrasound
- sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
--4 is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
--4 has particulars: | | beat; beep, bleep; bell, toll; buzz, bombilation, bombination; chink, click, clink; chirp; chirrup, twitter; chorus; click-clack; cry; drip, dripping; drum; footfall, footstep, step; gargle; gurgle; jingle, jangle; knock, knocking; mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, mussitation; noise; paradiddle, roll, drum roll; pat, rap, tap; patter; peal, pealing, roll, rolling; ping; plunk; pop, popping; purr; quack; quaver; ring, ringing, tintinnabulation; rub-a-dub, rataplan, drumbeat; sigh; skirl; song; strum; susurration, susurrus; swish; tapping; throbbing; thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud; thrum; thunk; tick, ticking; ting, tinkle; toot; tootle; trample, trampling; twang; vibrato; voice; whack; whir, whirr, whirring, birr; whistle, whistling; whiz; zing; zizz |
- audio, sound - the audible part of a transmitted signal; "they always raise the audio for commercials"
--5 is a kind of auditory communication
--5 is a part of television, telecasting, TV, video
- phone, speech sound, sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
--6 is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
--6 is a part of utterance, vocalization
--6 has particulars:
- strait, sound - a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
--7 is a kind of channel
--7 has particulars:
- sound - a large ocean inlet or deep bay; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"
--8 is a kind of body of water, water
--8 has particulars: Long Island Sound; Puget Sound; Queen Charlotte Sound
Verb sound has 7 senses
- sound - appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
--1 is one way to look, appear, seem
Sample sentence:
John will sound angry
- sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"
--2 is one way to cause to be perceived
Sample sentence:
The woods sound with many kinds of birds
- sound - give off a certain sound or sounds; "This record sounds scratchy"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
- sound - announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm"
--4 is one way to announce, denote
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise - utter with vibrating vocal chords
--5 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- sound - cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- fathom, sound - measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
--7 is one way to quantify, measure
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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