Definitions for sounder

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sounder sound·er

Spelling: [soun-der]

IPA: /ˈsaʊn dər/

Sounder is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in sounder (denorsu).

Definitions for sounder

noun

1. a person or thing that makes a sound or noise, or sounds something.
2. Telegraphy. an instrument for receiving telegraphic impulses that emits the sounds from which the message is read.
3. a person or thing that sounds depth, as of water.

adverb

1. deeply; thoroughly:

adjective

1. free from injury, damage, defect, disease, etc.; in good condition; healthy; robust:
2. financially strong, secure, or reliable:
3. competent, sensible, or valid:
4. having no defect as to truth, justice, wisdom, or reason:
5. of substantial or enduring character:
6. following in a systematic pattern without any apparent defect in logic:
7. uninterrupted and untroubled; deep:
8. vigorous, thorough, or severe:
9. free from moral defect or weakness; upright, honest, or good; honorable; loyal.
10. having no legal defect:
11. theologically correct or orthodox, as doctrines or a theologian.

Origin of sounder

First recorded in 1585-95; sound¹ + -er¹

Examples for sounder

I hope your lordship's grievance is sounder than your views of life.

But the Journal suggests that lower-cost producers with sounder finances, like Saudi Arabia, are unlikely to be accomodating.

Perhaps Americans are used to their private detectives being of sounder moral character.

I lay on a bench, with my head on my small bag, and never had a sounder sleep.

No sounder proposition or more promising one could have been put forward.

Those of sounder judgment cast about for a motive for this deed, but they also were baffled.

At present the Morse recorder is rarely used in comparison with the 'sounder.'

We then got the writer of the Academy Award–nominated screenplay for sounder, Lonnie Elder, to write a draft.

The use of the switch will be illustrated in connection with the sounder.

When it was finished and the sounder quiet, her hand awoke to life upon the key.