unsound
unsound
Definition
un·sound (un so̵und′)
adjective
not sound or free from defect; specif.,
- not normal or healthy physically or mentally
- not safe, firm, or solid; insecure
- not safe and secure financially
- not based on truth or valid reasoning; not accurate, reliable, sensible, etc.
- light: said of sleep
- unsought
- unsounded
- unsoured
- unsowed
- unsown
un·sound′ly adverb
un·sound′·ness noun
unsound
Synonyms
unsound
modif.
unsound
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: The problem was in casting ductile steel into ingots without creating air pockets, which made the metal unsound.
Modifies a noun
- mind: Ironing them yourself is evidence of an unsound mind.
- basis: The environmental argument for a motorway speed limit enforcement has a terminally unsound basis in fact.
- practice: Further, it could counter unsound practices within supermarkets.
- policy: The bank refuses to do business with companies involved in the fur trade and rejects clients with poor labor practices or ecologically unsound policies.
- doctrine: Both in the pulpit and out of it they watched for unsound doctrine, and when he strayed they took him by the neck.
- strategy: In past years, WH Smith, Sainsbury's and M&S all suffered from either unsound strategy or inefficiencies, or both.
Modifying Another Word
- theologically: In November 1995 the Vatican banned her teaching, branding it theologically unsound.
- structurally: For example, the dwelling may be structurally unsound or incapable of habitation.
- ecologically: The bank refuses to do business with companies involved in the fur trade and rejects clients with poor labor practices or ecologically unsound policies.
- ethically: It also seems a bit ethically unsound to allow the dead to hold control over the living in this way.
- scientifically: Thus studies should not be set up to confirm a hypothesis which is scientifically unsound.
- fundamentally: In the case of pornography the claims of harm are not only unproven, but are likely to be fundamentally unsound.
Used with adjective complement
unsound Quotes
Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.
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