What does Soundly mean?

Definitions for Soundly
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. soundlyadverb

    deeply or completely

    "slept soundly through the storm"; "the baby is sleeping soundly"

  2. thoroughly, soundly, goodadverb

    completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly')

    "he was soundly defeated"; "we beat him good"

Wiktionary

  1. soundlyadverb

    In a thorough manner, firmly, completely.

    He was soundly thrashed by the semi-professional boxer.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Soundlyadverb

    Etymology: from sound.

    When Duncan is asleep,
    Whereto the rather shall this hard day’s journey
    Soundly invite him. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    They did ply
    My feet and hands with cords, and to the mast
    With other halfers made me soundly fast. George Chapman, Odyssey.

    Who had so often in your aid
    So many ways been soundly paid;
    Came in at last for better ends. Hudibras.

    Have no concern,
    Provided Punch, for there’s the jest,
    Be soundly maul’d, and plague the rest. Jonathan Swift.

    Their nobility and gentry are one half ruined, banished, or converted: they all soundly feel the smart of the last Irish war. Jonathan Swift.

    The wisest are always the readiest to acknowledge, that soundly to judge of a law is the weightiest thing which any man can take upon him. Richard Hooker.

    The doctrine of the church of England, expressed in the thirty-nine articles, is so soundly and orthodoxly settled, as cannot be questioned without extreme danger to our religion. Francis Bacon.

    Now when that idle dream was to him brought,
    Unto that elfen knight he bad him fly,
    Where he slept soundly, void of evil thought. Fairy Queen.

    When the succession of ideas ceases, our perception of duration ceases with it, which every one experiments whilst he sleeps soundly. John Locke.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Soundlyadverb

    in a sound manner

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Soundly in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Soundly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Soundly in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump on Wednesday:

    He was left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in Hillary Clinton bed -- that's right, when the phone rang at 3 o'clock in the morning, Hillary Clinton was sleeping, ambassador Ambassador Chris Stevens and Ambassador Chris Stevens staff in Libya made hundreds of requests for security. Hillary Clinton’s State Department refused them all. Hillary Clinton started the war that put Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, denied Ambassador Chris Stevens the security Ambassador Chris Stevens asked for, then left Ambassador Chris Stevens there to die.

  2. Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan:

    Voters of my district soundly re-nominated me based on my strong record of service, giving me more than 65 percent of the vote, and they emphatically rejected Jason Gonzales because they knew he couldn’t be trusted.

  3. Harvey Newman:

    I kind of thought in the initial stages of the campaign, that maybe the message ought to be privately communicated that ‘You know, we love you, but it might not be your turn yet,' he surprised me by his showing in the general by just stepping up and beating Kasim soundly. That was remarkable. He did it with south side of Atlanta votes, which used to be Kasim’s stronghold. And then he built on that coalition.

  4. Barack Obama:

    We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.

  5. Tom Osborne:

    I know people talk about how USC beat Alabama in Birmingham the year before we beat Alabama rather soundly in Miami, but I also know that our game in that Orange Bowl was a big factor that began to erode the color barriers even more in the South.

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