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UNSOUNDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unsounded mean?
• UNSOUNDED (adjective)
The adjective UNSOUNDED has 2 senses:
1. situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
2. not made to sound
Familiarity information: UNSOUNDED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Synonyms:
profound; unfathomed; unplumbed; unsounded
Context example:
remote and unsounded caverns
Similar:
deep (having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not made to sound
Synonyms:
silent; unsounded
Context example:
in French certain letters are often unsounded
Similar:
inaudible; unhearable (impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear)
Context examples
I wrestled with my own resolution: I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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