Sound definition

Sound as an adjective

1. financially secure and safe

   "sound investments"

2. exercising or showing good judgment

   "a sound approach to the problem"

   Same sense: healthy, level-headed, intelligent, levelheaded

3. in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay

   "a sound timber"

4. in excellent physical condition

   "a sound mind in a sound body"

   Same sense: good

5. logically valid

   "a sound argument"

   Same sense: well-grounded, reasoned

6. having legal efficacy or force

   "a sound title to the property"

   Same sense: legal, effectual

7. vigorous or severe

   "a sound thrashing"

8. free from moral defect

   "a man of sound character"

9. (of sleep) deep and complete

   "a sound sleeper"

   Same sense: heavy, profound, wakeless

10. complete; thorough

    "politicians have no sound grasp of technology issues"

Sound as a noun

11. the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause

    "the sound of rain on the roof"

12. the subjective sensation of hearing something

    "he strained to hear the faint sounds"

    Same sense: auditory sensation

13. mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium

    "falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them"

14. the sudden occurrence of an audible event

    "the sound awakened them"

15. the audible part of a transmitted signal

    Same sense: audio

16. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

    Same sense: phone, speech sound

17. a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

    Same sense: strait

18. a large ocean inlet or deep bay

    "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"

Sound as a verb

19. appear in a certain way

    "This sounds interesting"

20. make a certain noise or sound

    Same sense: go

21. give off a certain sound or sounds

    "This record sounds scratchy"

22. announce by means of a sound

    "sound the alarm"

23. utter with vibrating vocal chords

    Same sense: voice, vocalize, vocalise

24. cause to sound

    "sound the bell"

25. measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

    Same sense: fathom

Synonyms and antonyms

• healthy
• level-headed
• intelligent
• levelheaded
• good definition
• well-grounded
• reasoned
• legal
• effectual
• heavy
• profound
• wakeless
• auditory sensation
• audio
• phone definition
• speech sound
• strait
• go definition
• voice
• vocalize
• vocalise
• fathom

Opposites: unsound, silence.

How to say sound

Sound has 1 syllable and rhymes with around. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with sound

• around
• found
• ground
• round
• background
• bound
• pound
• underground
• wound
• renowned
• profound
• playground

SOUND in word games

Scrabble

6

Words With Friends

8

Anagrams

1

Is SOUND a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check SOUND in the word checker, or unscramble SOUND to see its 1 anagram and the shorter words in its letters.