Word Meanings - UNSOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased. -- Un*sound"ly, adv. -- Un*sound"ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNSOUND)

• Decayed
• Rotten
• corrupt
• unsound
• decomposed
• declined
• faded
• sunk
• unprosperous
• impoverished
• wasted away
• Heterodox
• Unsound
• hereto ical
• Hollow \adj
• (Metaphor)
• Empty
• concave
• foolish
• weak
• faithless
• insincere
• artificial
• unsubstantial
• void
• flimsy
• transparent
• senseless
• vacant
• false
• Infirm
• Weak
• decrepit
• lame
• failing
• irresolute
• feeble
• enfeebled
• Morbid
• Diseased
• unhealthy
• sickly

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNSOUND)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to UNSOUND)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CONCAVE
  1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. 2. Hollow; void
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.