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Sounder   /sˈaʊndər/   Listen
Sounder

noun
1.
A device for making soundings.


Sound

adjective
(compar. sounder; superl. soundest)
1.
Financially secure and safe.  "A sound economy"
2.
Exercising or showing good judgment.  Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded.  "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"
3.
In good condition; free from defect or damage or decay.  "The wall is sound" , "A sound foundation"
4.
In excellent physical condition.  Synonym: good.  "I still have one good leg" , "A sound mind in a sound body"
5.
Logically valid.  Synonyms: reasoned, well-grounded.
6.
Having legal efficacy or force.  Synonyms: effectual, legal.
7.
Free from moral defect.
8.
(of sleep) deep and complete.  Synonyms: heavy, profound, wakeless.  "Fell into a profound sleep" , "A sound sleeper" , "Deep wakeless sleep"
9.
Thorough.



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"Sounder" Quotes from Famous Books



... removed from affliction weighed her down. The child had been asleep in her arms during the foregoing dialogue, and, after his father had departed, she placed him in the cradle, and, throwing the corner of her blue apron over her shoulder, she rocked him into a sounder sleep, swaying herself at the same time to and fro, with that inward sorrow, of which, among the lower classes of Irish females, this motion is uniformly expressive. It is not to be supposed, however, that, as the early graces of childhood gradually expanded (as they did) into ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... with me, and I'll build your fortunes anew and on a sounder foundation. I have an influential letter in my pocket that should procure us fortune in the service of ...
— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini
... consults a doctor friend and is given a prescription. After an argument with an irate chemist, he finds he has been ordered to take beefsteak and porter, and not meddle with matters he does not understand. A sounder prescription never ...
— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs
... correspond with Mr. Burke believing him then to be a man of sounder principles than his book shows him to be, I wrote to him last winter from Paris, and gave him an account how prosperously matters were going on. Among other subjects in that letter, I referred to the ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... need is a sounder physical organism, which can be attained only through the systematic continuance of physical activities through childhood and girlhood; the second need is sounder mental interests, which can be attained only through the systematic ...
— The Social Emergency - Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals • Various


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