SOUND ASLEEP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sound asleep mean? 

• SOUND ASLEEP (adjective)
  The adjective SOUND ASLEEP has 1 sense:

1. sleeping deeply

  Familiarity information: SOUND ASLEEP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUND ASLEEP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sleeping deeply

Synonyms:

fast asleep; sound asleep

Context example:

it would be cruel to wake him; he's sound asleep

Similar:

asleep (in a state of sleep)

 Context examples 

Indeed, she was so sound asleep that for a few seconds she did not recognize me, but looked at me with a sort of blank terror, as one looks who has been waked out of a bad dream.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Peggotty continuing to stand motionless in the middle of the room, and my mother resuming her singing, I fell asleep, though I was not so sound asleep but that I could hear voices, without hearing what they said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was a long time about it, and when she returned, he was stretched out with both arms under his head, sound asleep, while Aunt March had pulled down the curtains and sat doing nothing in an unusual fit of benignity.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Amy did not come, Meg went to her room to try on a new dress, Jo was absorbed in her story, and Hannah was sound asleep before the kitchen fire, when Beth quietly put on her hood, filled her basket with odds and ends for the poor children, and went out into the chilly air with a heavy head and a grieved look in her patient eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)