| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | saw'nd |
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| Rhymes | abound, aground, around, and 55 more rhymes in awnd at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Financially secure and safe. |
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| Examples | "sound investments"; "a sound economy" |
| Similar | dependable, good, safe, secure; healthy; stable |
| See also | unbroken; undamaged; fit, healthy; healthy; uninjured; wholesome |
| Contrary | unsound |
| Meaning | Exercising or showing good judgment. |
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| Examples | "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision" |
| Synonyms | healthy, intelligent, levelheaded |
| Similar to | reasonable, sensible |
| Meaning | In good condition. Free from defect or damage or decay. |
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| Examples | "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation" |
| Similar | solid, strong, substantial |
| Contrary | unsound |
| Meaning | In excellent physical condition. |
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| Examples | "a sound mind in a sound body" |
| Synonyms | good |
| Similar to | healthy |
| Meaning | Reflects weight of sound argument or evidence. |
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| Examples | "a sound argument" |
| Synonyms | reasoned, well-grounded |
| Similar to | valid |
| Meaning | Having legal efficacy or force. |
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| Examples | "a sound title to the property" |
| Synonyms | legal |
| Similar to | valid |
| Meaning | Free from moral defect. |
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| Examples | "a man of sound character" |
| Similar to | righteous |
| Meaning | (of sleep) deep and complete. |
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| Examples | "a sound sleeper" |
| Synonyms | heavy, profound, wakeless |
| Similar to | deep |
| Adverbs | soundly |
| Meaning | Thorough. |
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| Examples | "a sound thrashing" |
| Similar to | complete |
| Adverbs | soundly |
| Meaning | The particular auditory effect produced by a given cause. |
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| Examples | "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music" |
| Narrower | noisiness, racketiness; ring; unison; voice |
| Broader | sound property |
| Contrary | silence, quiet |
| Verbs | sound; sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | The subjective sensation of hearing something. |
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| Examples | "he strained to hear the faint sounds" |
| Synonyms | auditory sensation |
| Narrower | music, euphony; music; tone, pure tone; noise, dissonance, racket |
| Broader | sensation, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum |
| Verbs | sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | Mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium. |
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| Examples | "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them" |
| Narrower | ultrasound |
| Broader | mechanical phenomenon |
| Verbs | sound; sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | The sudden occurrence of an audible event. |
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| Examples | "the sound awakened them" |
| Narrower | 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 |
| Broader | happening, occurrence, natural event |
| Verbs | sound; sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | The audible part of a transmitted signal. |
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| Synonyms | audio |
| Part of | television, telecasting, TV, video |
| Broader | auditory communication |
| Verbs | sound; sound |
| Meaning | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language. |
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| Synonyms | phone, speech sound |
| Category | phonetics |
| Part of | utterance, vocalization |
| Narrower | phoneme; vowel, vowel sound; semivowel, glide; consonant; orinasal phone, orinasal; sonant, voiced sound |
| Broader | language unit, linguistic unit |
| Verbs | sound; sound |
| Meaning | A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water. |
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| Synonyms | strait |
| Narrower | Dardanelles, Hellespont; East River; Bering Strait; Bosporus; Cook Strait; Golden Gate; Kattegatt; Korean Strait, Korea Strait; Menai Strait; narrow; North Channel; Skagerrak, Skagerak; Solent, the Solent; Strait of Georgia; Strait of Gibraltar; Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz; Strait of Magellan; Strait of Messina; Strait of Dover, Strait of Calais, Pas de Calais; Torres Strait |
| Broader | channel |
| Meaning | A large ocean inlet or deep bay. |
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| Examples | "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast" |
| Narrower | Long Island Sound; Puget Sound; Queen Charlotte Sound |
| Broader | body of water, water |
| Verbs | sound |
| Meaning | Deeply or completely. |
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| Examples | "slept soundly through the storm"; "is sound asleep" |
| Synonyms | soundly |
| Meaning | Appear in a certain way. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
| Model | John will sound angry |
| Examples | "This sounds interesting" |
| Broader | look, appear, seem |
| Meaning | Make a certain noise or sound. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
| Model | The woods sound with many kinds of birds |
| Synonyms | go |
| Caused by | sound; ring, knell |
| Narrower | snarl; whistle, sing; blow; ting; make noise, resound, noise; splat; twang; clang, clangor; clank; clangor, clangour; boom, boom out; drum, beat, thrum; rattle; tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat; resonate, vibrate; tweet, twirp; skirl; gurgle; glug; blow; whish; guggle; ping; pink, ping, knock; trump; squelch; chug; ring, peal; buzz, bombinate, bombilate; chime; rustle; snap, crack; crack; honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot; whistle; resound, echo, ring, reverberate; thud, thump; clop, clump, clunk, plunk; patter, pitter-patter; tap, rap, knock, pink; click, tick; chatter, click; pop; tinkle, tink, clink, chink; splash, splosh, slosh, slush; hum, thrum; bleep; rumble, grumble; boom, din; bang; ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle; lap, swish, swosh, swoosh; drone; whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr; roll |
| Broader | cause to be perceived |
| Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | Give off a certain sound or sounds. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
| Examples | "This record sounds scratchy" |
| Narrower | cackel; play; dissonate; pierce; speak |
| Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | Announce by means of a sound. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "sound the alarm" |
| Broader | announce, denote |
| Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | Utter with vibrating vocal chords. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | voice, vocalize, vocalise |
| Narrower | chirk; quaver, waver |
| Broader | pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say |
| Contrary | devoice |
| Nouns | sound; sonant |
| Meaning | Cause to sound. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note" |
| Cause to | sound, go |
| Narrower | play; blow; twang; prepare; gong; ting; strum, thrum; ring, knell; pop; clink |
| See also | sound off |
| Nouns | sound; sound; sound; sound |
| Meaning | Measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | fathom |
| Broader | quantify, measure |
| Nouns | sound; sounding; sounder; sounding |