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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

... appear to regard Herndon as a mere romancer. The well poised Lincoln and Herndon recently published by Joseph Fort Newton holds what I feel compelled to regard as a sounder view; namely, that while Herndon was at times reckless and at times biased, nevertheless he is in the ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... but pleas'd and idly taking pains, Here Lewes Downs I till and Ringmer plains, Names that to each South Saxon well are known, Though they sound harsh to powdered beaux in town. None can enjoy a sounder sleep than mine; I often do not wake till after nine; And midnight hours with interest repay For years in town diversions thrown away. Stranger to finery, myself I dress In the first coat from an old ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... apartment of Atahuallpa, and taken all the precautions of a careful commander, Pizarro withdrew to repose; and, if he could really feel, that, in the bloody scenes of the past day, he had been fighting only the good fight of the Cross, he doubtless slept sounder than on the night preceding the seizure ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

... retained and it readily lends itself to transplantation. Portions of fat are often obtainable at operations—from the omentum, for example, otherwise the subcutaneous fat of the buttock is the most accessible; it may be employed to fill up cavities of all kinds in order to obtain more rapid and sounder healing and also to remedy deformity, as in filling up a depression in the cheek or forehead. It is ultimately converted into ordinary connective tissue pari passu with the absorption of ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... very congenial 'job,' as you call it, to put bread in your mouth. No, no, I would not like to trust myself to your Providence, or to your Chance. Though I admit your Chance is a sounder proposition than Lilly's Providence. You speculate with your life and your talent. I admit the nature which is a born speculator. After all, with your flute, you will speculate in other people's taste for luxury, as a man may speculate ...

— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence

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