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Sounder

noun

A device for making soundings.

Sound

adjective

(compar. sounder; superl. soundest)

Financially secure and safe. "A sound economy"

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"

In good condition; free from defect or damage or decay. "The wall is sound" , "A sound foundation"

In excellent physical condition. Synonym: good. "I still have one good leg" , "A sound mind in a sound body"

Logically valid. Synonyms: reasoned, well-grounded.

Having legal efficacy or force. Synonyms: effectual, legal.

Free from moral defect.

(of sleep) deep and complete. Synonyms: heavy, profound, wakeless. "Fell into a profound sleep" , "A sound sleeper" , "Deep wakeless sleep"

Thorough.

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"Sounder" Quotes from Famous Books

... she wrote, "my judgment has turned out to be sounder than yours. That hateful old man has confirmed my worst opinion of him. Pray have him punished. Take him before a magistrate and charge him with cheating you out of your money. I inclose the sealed letter which he gave me at the farmhouse. The week's time before I was to open it expired ...

— My Lady's Money • Wilkie Collins

... lances, when they stood secure upon the platform in front of the building. Here the somewhat aged, but commanding form of the Empress, and the still juvenile beauties of the fair historian, were seen to great advantage. In the front of a deep back-ground of spears and waving crests, stood the sounder of the sacred trumpet, conspicuous by his size and the richness of his apparel; he kept his post on a rock above the stone staircase, and, by an occasional note of his instrument, intimated to the squadrons beneath that they should stay their progress, ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... closing years, at once ennobled and embittered by that last desperate struggle to clear off the burden of debt, he concludes with genuine feeling. 'It can be said of Scott, when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time. Alas, his fine Scotch face, with its shaggy honesty, sagacity, and goodness, when we saw it latterly on the Edinburgh streets, was all worn with care, the joy all fled ...

— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen

... escape being crushed under the feet of Moloch as he strides through his dominions. If the name Baali did not suggest a wrong idea there would be no need to change it for another, and the change of name therefore indicates the opening of the mind to a larger and sounder conception of the true nature of the Ruling Principle of the universe. It is no imperious autocrat, the very apotheosis of self-glorification, ill-natured and spiteful if its childish vanity be not gratified by hearing its own praises formally proclaimed, ...

— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward

... economically sounder to carry on international intercourse in one easy language than in a large number of ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

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