Unsound

Definition: Unsound

Unsound

Adjective

1. Not in good condition; damaged or decayed; "an unsound foundation".

2. Not sound financially; "unsound banking practices".

3. Containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument".

4. Suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind".

5. Physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth".

6. Of e.g. advice.

7. In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unsound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Unsound

Deception

Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.

Disease

Unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.

Error

Adjective: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; (heterodox); unsound; illogical.

Imperfection

Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.

Insanity

Noun: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder.

Mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind; Noun: touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind.

Reasoning,

Unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur.

Crosswords: Unsound

It's ecologically unsound! (Heartbreak Ridge; writing credit: James Carabatsos)

They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound. (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Becoming Financially Sound in an Unsound World (reference)

• Colouring in : a book of ideologically unsound love stories (reference)

• The Factors of the Unsound Mind (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Unsound Methods (reference)

• Unsound Vol. 1: Pop! (reference)

• Unsound Vol. 2: Guitars! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

For that reason the old doctrine of a balance of power is unsound. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Trinidad

The U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain is not aware of any investment proposal being denied outright, the only grounds for which would be that a proposal is illegal, contrary to public morals or environmentally unsound. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "unsound": become unsound ♦ of unsound mind ♦ politically unsound ♦ unsound baking procedures ♦ unsound doctrine. Additional references.

Albanian

i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, ill, invalid, morbid, noisome, pathological, patient, seedy, sick, sufferer, unhealthy, unwell), i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned), i pathemeluar, i kalbur (carious, carrion, corrupt, decayed, putrid, rotten, rotting, saprogenic, saprogenous, tainted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاسد أخلاقيا, ‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), ‏مريض (ailing, diseased, ill, inmate, invalid, sick, sick list, sickly, sufferer, unhealthy, unwell), ‏غير سليم, ‏غير صحيح (erroneous, improper, incorrect, indecorous, inexact, mistaken, unchecked, untrue, untruthful), ‏غير صالح للأكل (inedible), ‏غير ثابت (movable, precarious, problematic, rocky, tenuous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рискован (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, hazardous, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, queasy, risky, speculative, sporting, touch and go, venturesome), нестабилен (crank, dicky, doddery, groggy, insecure, tottery, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, wonky), неспокоен (anxious, apprehensive, broken, nervous, nervy, raucous, restive, restless, sleepless, spooky, uneasy, unrestful, worried, yeasty), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), необоснован (baseless, causeless, idle, ill founded, invalid, precarious, slender, unbacked, unfounded), нездрав (feverish, insalubrious, morbid, noisome, sallow, unhealthy), загнил (carious, carrion, stagnant), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsubstantial), болен (ailing, bad, diseased, ill, invalid, patient, punk, sick, unhealthy, unwell), болезнен (afflictive, diseased, morbid, painful, peccant, sick, sore, torturous, wicked), погрешен (awry, erroneous, false, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, mis-, misguided, mistaken, off beat, perverse, untrue, vicious, wonky, wrong, wrongful), измамлив (deceptive, delusive, delusory, fraudulent, guileful, illusory). (various references)

Chinese 

不健康 (unhealthy). (various references)

Czech

riskantní (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, Dickey, dodgy, hazardous, precarious, risky, touch and go), nezdravý (damaging to one's health, insalubrious, sickly, unhealthy, unwell, unwholesome), nesolidní, nerozumný (foolish, impractical, reasonless, unreasonable, unwise), nepodložený, nepříèetný (berserk, not all there, raving mad), nejistý (afloat, chancy, cloudy, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fluid, halting, insecure, jumpy, precarious, shaky, suspensive, tenuous, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsettled, unsure), nedobrý, napadnutelný, chatrný (broken, coarse, delicate, frail, jerry built, paltry, poorly, shoddy, weak). (various references)

Danish

krampe (clip, convulsion, cramp, hasp, hook, hook joint, loop, muscle cramp, staple), fordærvet (spoiled). (various references)

Dutch

wormstekig (worm-eaten), wormig (worm-eaten), aangestoken (worm-eaten). (various references)

Esperanto

vermborita (worm-eaten). (various references)

Farsi 

ناسالم (Insanitary, Morbid, Unhealthy), ناصحیح (Bad, Indecorous, Unjust, Wrong), ناخوش (Ill, Morbid, Sick, Unhealthy, Unwell), نادرست (Amiss, Dishonest, Erroneous, False, Foul, Imprecise, Impure, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Inexact, Jackleg, Sinister, Spurious, Unfair, Untrue, Vicious), غلط (Amiss, Awry, Erroneous, Error, False, Foul, Inaccuracy, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Phony). (various references)

Finnish

vahingoittunut (damaged, spoiled), pilaantunut (damaged, tainted decayed), pahentunut (spoiled), ei terve (spoiled). (various references)

French

véreux (under a cloud), tiqueur, qui n'est pas sain, précaire, pourri, peu constant, hasardeux, gaté, bancal. (various references)

German

unzuverlässig (disaffectedly, dodgy, faithless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unreliably, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references)

Greek 

σαθρόσ (rotten), νοσηρόσ (morbid, sickly), χαλασμένος (broken, out of order), επισφαλήσ (insecure, shaky, unsafe), ο έχων νευρική σύσπαση. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, vicious, wanting), לא שפוי (insane, unbalanced), רעוע (breaking, dilapidated, ramshackle, rickety, run down, shaky, shattering, tumble down). (various references)

Hungarian

egészségtelen (insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, morbidity, noisome, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome). (various references)

Italian

malsicuro (aleatory, insecure, uncertain, unreliable, unsafe, unstably, unsteady, unsure), malato (bad, diseased, ill, morbid, sick, sick person, sufferer, unhealthy, unwell), debole (dim, failing, faint, feeble, flimsy, frail, gone, helpless, impotent, infirm, light, nerveless, pale, powerless, strengthless, tenuous, weak, weak point, weakly), che ha un tic. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

心神耗弱 (mental retardation, unsound mind), 心神喪失 (of unsound mind). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"し�"そうしつ (of unsound mind), し�"し�"�"うじゃく (mental retardation, unsound mind), し�"し�"もうじゃく (mental retardation, unsound mind). (various references)

Korean 

불건� �한. (various references)

Pig Latin

oundunsay

Portuguese

estragado (damaged, dilapidated, rotten, spoilt, tainted), doentio (crank, diseased, green, insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, reckling, sickly, unhealthy, unwholesome, wan, weak, weakly, wishy-washy). (various references)

Russian 

нездоровый (ailing, dicky, diseased, doughy, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unhealthy, unhygienic, unwell, unwholesome). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nezdrav (insanitary, sickly, unhealthy, unwholesome), netačan (inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, non-punctual, off, unpunctual, wrong), nesiguran (dickey, dicky, diffident, dotty, doubtful, faltering, insecure, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsure, waggly, wildcat, wonky). (various references)

Spanish

poco seguro (gauffer, indefinite), malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, bum, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, miserable, mistaken, nasty, naughty, ornery, poor, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, villain, wicked, wretched, wrong), deteriorado (ropy), defectuoso (broken, defect, defective, deficient, erroneous, faulty, flawed, imperfect, incomplete, incorrect, lame, leaky, wanting), caballo que padece tiro, achacoso (ailing). (various references)

Swedish

sinnessjuk (insane, lunatic, mentally deranged, mentally ill), osund (insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome). (various references)

Turkish

sağlıksız (dodgy, ill, insalubrious, insanitary, shaky, sickly, unhealthy, unsanitary, unwholesome), hatalı (Amiss, delinquent, errant, erring, erroneous, false, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, mistaken, out, solecistic, wet, wrong), hasta (ailing, buff, case, client, diseased, fan, fanatical, ill, in bad health, invalid, patient, poorly, sick, sufferer, under the weather, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feeble, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, mild, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy), geçersiz (defunct, full of holes, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, no-account, non-effective, nude, null, off, out of use, paper, void), güvenilmez (beyond belief, discredited, elusive, elusory, faithless, insecure, irresponsible, precarious, shifty, slippery, suspicious, treacherous, uncertain, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, untrustable, untrustworthy, whacky), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, upset, vicious, wrong), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, feeble, flimsy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, wonky). (various references)

Ukrainian

ненормальний (abnormal, anamorphous, anomalous, bugs, cracked, cracky, deranged, non-conventional, screwy), нездоровий (ailing, decadent, feverish, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, noxious, off color, off colour, sickly, unfit, unwell, unwholesome, useless), зіпсований (addle, adulterated, bad, base, corrupt, debauched, decadent, deformed, degenerate, miscreant, naughty, out of order, spoilt, wrong). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiu, mọt, ôi (smelly). (various references)

aegros. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unsound": unsounded, unsounder, unsoundest, unsoundly, unsoundness, unsoundnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unsound" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unisound. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: nodus, nouns, sound.

-3 letters: dons, duns, duos, nods, noun, nous, nuns, onus, ouds, sunn, udos, undo.

-4 letters: don, dos, dun, duo, nod, nos, nun, nus, ods, ons, oud, sod, son, sou, sun, udo, uns.

-5 letters: do, no, nu, od, on, os, so, un, us.

+1 letter: unrounds.

+2 letters: mundungos, runrounds, unsounded, unsounder, unsoundly.

+3 letters: conundrums, groundnuts, runarounds, unconfused, unconsumed, unsoundest.

+4 letters: surrounding, turnarounds, undercounts, undulations, unsoundness.

+5 letters: disingenuous, surroundings, undergrounds, unillusioned, unquestioned.

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