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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complete, healthy |
| Synonyms: | alive and kicking, effectual, entire, firm, fit, flawless, hale, hearty, in the pink, intact, perfect, right, right as rain, robust, safe, sane, solid, stable, sturdy, substantial, thorough, total, unblemished, undamaged, undecayed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, up to snuff, vibrant, vigorous, vital, well, well-constructed, whole, wholesome, wrapped tight |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, infirm, unfit, unhealthy, unsound |
| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepted, established |
| Synonyms: | all there, authoritative, canonical, dependable, fair, faithful, fly*, go*, hanging together, holding together, holding up, holding up in wash, holding water, kosher*, legal, legit, loyal, orthodox, proper, proven, received, recognized, reliable, reputable, safe, sanctioned, secure, significant, solid, solvent, stable, standing up, tried-and-true, true, valid, washing |
| Antonyms: | distrusted, refused, rejected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something heard or audible |
| Synonyms: | accent, din, harmony, intonation, loudness, melody, modulation, music, noise, note, pitch, racket, report, resonance, reverberation, ringing, softness, sonance, sonancy, sonority, sonorousness, static, tenor, tonality, tone, vibration, voice |
| Antonyms: | silence |
| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce noise |
| Synonyms: | babble, bang, bark, blare, blow, boom, burst, buzz, cackle, chatter, clack, clang, clank, clap, clatter, clink, crash, creak, detonate, echo, emit, explode, hum, jabber, jangle, jar, moan, murmur, patter, play, rattle, reflect, resonate, resound, reverberate, ring, roar, rumble, shout, shriek, shrill, sing, slam, smash, snort, squawk, thud, thump, thunder, toot, trumpet, vibrate, whine, whisper |
| Antonyms: | quiet |
| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give the impression |
| Synonyms: | appear, appear to be, look, seem, strike as being |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
acoustic, altitonant, amphorous, anechoic, assonant, audible, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, borborygmic, buccinal, cacuminal, closed, deaf, distinct, dumb, faint, foudroyant, glad, inaudible, isacoustic, loud, monophonic, mum, mute, noisy, non, quadraphonic, quiet, rataplan, raucous, reel, rooped, roupy, singultous, soft, sonant, sonic, soniferous, sonorific, sonorous, sounding, soundproof, stereophonic, stertorous, still, stone, supersonic, throaty, tone
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| Concept: | Sound. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; sound in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound.
-adjectives
sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.
-phrases
"a thousand trills and quivering sounds" [Addison]; forensis strepitus.
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| Antonyms: | silence |
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| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack with words |
| Synonyms: | backbite, bad-mouth, bash, belittle, berate, blow off, calumniate, cap, castigate, cuss out, cut down, cut to the quick, decry, defame, derogate, discount, do a number on, dump on, give a black eye, hurl brickbat, insult, knock*, minimize, nag, offend, oppress, persecute, pick on, put down*, rag on, reproach, revile, ride*, rip up, run down, scold, signify, slam*, slap, sling mud, smear, sound*, swear at, tear apart, trash*, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, zing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Antonyms: | acclaim, adulate, approve, commend, compliment, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acoustics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound quality |
| Synonyms: | echo, noise, sound, sound properties, sound transmission |
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