sounda

Adjective

sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

1. Healthy.
   • He was safe and sound.
2. Complete, solid, or secure.
   • Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
3. Having the property of soundness.
   • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what...1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii
4. (Ireland, UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
   • How are you? —I'm sound.
5. Quiet and deep.
   • Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.
6. Heavy; laid on with force.
   • a sound beating

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