| 单词 | unsound |
| 释义 | unsound (ʌnsaʊnd ) 1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If a conclusion or method is unsound, it is based on ideas that are wrong. The thinking is good-hearted, but muddled and fundamentally unsound. The national tests were educationally unsound. Synonyms: flawed, faulty, weak, false 2. adjective If something or someone is unsound, they are unreliable. No sensible person would put his money in a bank he knew to be unsound. 3. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE, usually adverb ADJECTIVE] If you say that something is unsound in some way, you mean that it is damaging in that way or to the thing mentioned. The project is environmentally unsound. A diet extremely low in calories can also be a diet that is nutritionally unsound. 4. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If a building or other structure is unsound, it is in poor condition and is likely to collapse. The church was structurally unsound. Synonyms: unstable, shaky, insecure, unsafe Collocations: unsound mind I reasoned that my sins had caused me to have this unsound mind. Christianity Today I could not stand to be an unsound mind in the midst of these loving sound minds. Christianity Today Will he escape the gallows, or will he be found of unsound mind? Times, Sunday Times He had already in 1798 been declared to have been of an unsound mind. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many insisted she was of unsound mind, at least at the time of her act. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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