unsoundadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈsaʊnd/, U.S.

/ˌənˈsaʊnd/

Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1. Compare North Frisian ünsün (-sünj), Middle Low German unsund (hence Swedish osund, Danish usund); also Middle Dutch ongesont (Dutch ongezond), Middle Low German ungesund, Middle High German ungesunt (German ungesund).

a. Of persons, etc.: Not physically sound; unhealthy, diseased; †suffering from wounds or injuries.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded

unsoundc1330

wounded1382

bruiseda1400

offended1440

sauciate1509

breached1547

vulnerated1598

interwounding1599

sauciated1657

struck1809

traumatized1935

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased

untrumc825

sickc888

unwholec888

slackc897

unstronga900

sicklea1000

sam-halea1023

worseOE

attaint1303

languishinga1325

heallessc1374

sicklyc1374

sicklewa1387

bada1393

mishalea1400

languoring?c1425

distempered1440

unwell?c1450

detent?a1475

poora1475

languorousc1475

maladif1481

illa1500

maladiousc1500

wanthriven1508

attainted1509

unsound1513

acrazed1521

cracked1527

unsoundya1529

visited1537

infirmed1552

crazed1555

healthless1568

ill-liking1572

afflicted1574

crazy1576

unhealthful1580

sickish1581

valetudinary1581

not well1587

fainty1590

ill-disposed1596

unhealthsome1598

tainted1600

ill-affected1604

peaking1611

unhealthy1611

infirmited1616

disaffected1626

physical1633

illish1637

pimping1640

invalid1642

misaffected1645

valetudinarious1648

unhale1653

badly1654

unwholesome1655

valetudinous1655

morbulent1656

off the hooksa1658

mawkish1668

morbid1668

unthriven1680

unsane1690

ailing1716

not wellish1737

underlya1742

poorly1750

indifferent1753

comical1755

maladized1790

sober1808

sickened1815

broken-down1816

peaky1821

poorlyish1827

souffrante1827

run-down1831

sicklied1835

addle1844

shaky1844

mean1845

dauncy1846

stricken1846

peakyish1853

po'ly1860

pindling1861

rough1882

rocky1883

suffering1885

wabbit1895

icky-boo1920

like death warmed up1924

icky1938

ropy1945

crappy1956

hanging1971

sick as a parrot1982

shite1987

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3342 Wiþ diolful dintes sare, Vnsounde.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1175 Men wounded him and band Vnsounde.

c1330 King of Tars 522 Summe heore scolles icleved, With serwe thei weore unsounde.

a1450 Le Morte Arth. 2165 Oute of the felde was he drayne, For he was seke and sore vn-sounde.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 787 The wery ost..Wysche woundis with wyn off thaim that was wnsound.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. i. 1 The Queyn, with havy thochtis onsound, In euery vane nurisis the greyn wound.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1255 Þai hurlet hym fro horse fete, & of hond toke, Set hym in his sadill þof he vnsound were.

1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 311 Enuy..Shall find me solid, and her teeth vnsound.

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety viii. 211 And like an unsound limb, the healing of one Sore is the breaking out of another.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year (1896) 57 It brought abundance of unsound people to the markets.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 35 It seems as if one might work a lame horse thus, and keep his unsound leg quiet.

1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. i. 564 Merrily! merrily! never unsound, Shall our bonny black horses skim over the ground!

1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight vi. 80 An eye with a high degree of short-sight is almost always an unsound one.

b. transferred. Of wounds, ailments, etc.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective]

morbous?a1425

unsoundc1540

naughty1572

sick1597

sicklya1616

morbifica1691

morbose1692

ill-conditioned1700

morbid1748

pathic1846

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 495 Medea the mylde..Wox pale for pyne..With a Sykyng vnsounde, þat sonet to hir hert.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iv. sig. Cc3 But that same Ladies hurts no herbe he found, Which could redresse, for it was inwardly vnsound .

1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age H 2 b I did neglect the smart: At length it rankled and it grew vnsound.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 425 The unsound appearances of the granulations show to what a stand the animal powers are put on such occasions.

†c. quasi-adv., in to sigh unsound.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh [verb (intransitive)]

sichec893

sikec1175

sigh1377

to sigh unsound?a1400

sightc1450

sithec1450

throb1557

to break a sigh1765

heave1820

sock1863

?a1400 Morte Arth. 3290 Ofte he syghede vn-sownde, and said theis wordes.

a1440 Sir Degrev. 316 The eorl hovede and beheld..How they fayre in the feld, And syght unsound.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bv^v For pure sorow of that sight thai sighit vnsound.

d. Of substances, plants, fruits, etc.: Not in sound or good condition.

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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective]

undisposedc1380

sicka1425

shrewdc1430

crazy1583

unsound1617

vitiated1620

depravate1665

depraveda1807

sickly1826

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 273 Officers..who ouersee the shambles, that no vnsound meate be sold.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 167 Some Lands will make unsound Cheese, notwithstanding all the Care the good Housewife can take.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 402 In some places the grapes are..picked from the stalks, and freed from all the unsound ones with great care.

1855 Poultry Chron. 3 546/1 Shake the earth from the roots, cut off any unsound parts.

a. Morally corrupt or vitiated; wicked, evil.

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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective]

sickc960

foulOE

unwholec1000

thewlessa1327

corrupt1340

viciousc1340

unwholesomec1374

infecta1387

rustyc1390

unsound?a1400

rottenc1400

rotten-heartedc1405

cankereda1450

infectedc1449

wasted1483

depravate?1520

poisoned1529

deformed1555

poisonous1555

reprobate1557

corrupted1563

prave1564

base-minded1573

tainted1577

Gomorrhean1581

vice-like1589

depraved1593

debauched1598

deboshedc1598

tarish1601

sunk1602

speckled1603

deboist1604

diseased1608

ulcerous1611

vitial1614

debauchc1616

deboise1632

pravous1653

depravea1711

unhealthy1821

scrofulous1842

septic1914

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt

foul-stinkingOE

unwholesomec1374

corruptc1380

rotten1395

infecta1398

unsound?a1400

rotten-heartedc1405

infectedc1449

fly-blown1528

reprobate1531

corrupped1533

corrupted1563

poisoned1567

abusive?1585

debauched1598

deboshedc1598

deboist1604

debauchc1616

deboise1632

scrofulous1842

?a1400 Morte Arth. 3942 [He] ses theme alle in a soppe..With the Sarazenes vn-sownde enserclede a-bowte.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 575 Þe venym & þe vylanye & þe vycios fylþe, Þat by-sulpez mannez saule in vnsounde hert.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. iv. 9 That wherein vnsounder times haue done amisse, the better ages ensuing must rectifie, as they may.

1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. A7^v Seeking how she might the more inhaunce me, Though lewd my hauiour was, vnsound my carriage.

1811 C. Lamb Genius & Char. Hogarth in Wks. (1908) I. 107 That he..took a pleasure in exposing the unsound and rotten parts of human nature.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. iii. 130 If the people are unsound,..the nation perishes.

b. Not sincere or true.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adjective]

feignedc1374

unplaina1393

hollowa1529

hollow-hearted1549

foul1550

unsincere1577

insincere1634

unsound1714

lip-deep1802

lip-born1872

phoney1951

pseud1962

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 104 Boobyclod soon drops upon the ground, A certain token that his love's unsound.

3. Unwholesome, unhealthy.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective]

evilc1000

unsete1387

pestilenta1398

pestilentiala1398

unhealfulc1400

unthendec1425

unsetyc1440

unwholesomec1455

ill1488

pestifere1490

contagious1495

infectious1534

pestiferous1538

unhealthsome1544

unkindlyc1570

deletery1576

deleterious1587

bad1589

unhealthful1598

unsound1598

unhealthy1600

sickly1604

deleterial1621

tetrous1637

insalubrious1638

unseasoned1638

cankered1645

healthless1650

insalutary1694

maliferous1727

insanous1742

unsalubrious1781

unsanitary1872

insanitary1874

devitalizing1875

antihygienic1876

unhygienic1883

unhealthy-looking1890

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Insanare,..to make vnsound, or vnholsome.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 385 The Mine of Porto..is..of little benefit for want of workmen, by reason of the unsound ayre.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 179 In unsound Pasture they reckon it the best for Lambs to run with the Ewes.

1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Hill-farm 18 in Farm-rep. In summer they depasture on the unsound grass land.

4. Not mentally sound or normal; not sane.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Bi^v But we goe on, vnsound of memorie.

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Aiv When all vnsounde her syster of lyke mynde Thus spake she to.

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. iv. §298. 131 If a man of unsound memory..exchange the same land with a stranger.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 32 A debilitated Body, and unsound Mind.

1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. iii. 400 His Master sure..Must have confess'd the Slave unsound of Brain.

1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. (App.) 520 Finding that Nicholas Hume..was not an idiot or person of unsound mind.

1898 Daily News 9 Nov. 4/5 The jury found..that he was occasionally unsound in mind.

a. Not soundly based in reasoning or fact.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adjective]

falsec1175

ungroundedc1380

ungroundable1395

erroneousc1400

wrongc1400

rotten1529

mistaken1540

sinistral1542

sinistrous1562

errorful1570

unsolid1593

unsound1595

misgrounded1606

mistaking1631

errorous1633

unbottomed1641

erratile1652

heterodox1654

unbased1860

misfelt1935

fuzzy1937

flaky1972

the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [adjective] > accepted, orthodox > not

unsound1595

heterodox1654

1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xiii. sig. H2 Modesty, That suffers not one looke to glaunce awry, Which may let in a little thought vnsownd.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes 210 The ground of the objection is unsound.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 6 Therefore it is unsound to say that God [etc.].

1746 Dunkin tr. Horace Epist. i. ii. 22 When doating Monarchs urge Unsound Resolves, their Subjects feel the Scourge.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV vii. 6 Waking Reason deems Such over-weening phantasies unsound.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 614 Their old theory, sound or unsound, was at least complete and coherent.

1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vi. 180 When they air their unsound criticism in public.

b. Of persons in respect of opinion or belief.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [adjective]

dwal-kennedc1175

misbelievedc1225

dwalea1325

misbelievingc1330

land-leaping1377

hereticc1384

heretical1532

sinistral1542

sinistrous1562

unsound1597

pseudo-religious1672

Manichaeistic1924

the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [adjective] > holding accepted beliefs > not

unsound1597

inorthodox1657

heterodox1658

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lii. 110 So Eutyches of sound beliefe..became vnsound by denying the difference.

a1658 J. Durham Comm. Revelation (1660) 187 If an unsound hypocriticall man may be sent Minister of Christ?

1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 196 God tenderly covers Asa's frailty,..which he would not do for unsound Jehu.

1891 Ld. Acton in Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. (1906) 2/3 St. John, I have even heard, was unsound about Old Testament dates and authorships.

6. Lacking in solidity or firmness.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective]

tender?c1225

feeble1340

infirmc1374

slight1393

weakc1400

sperec1440

silly1587

unsound1590

immaterial1609

paper1615

unsubstantiala1617

reedy1628

slighty1662

insufficient1700

flimsy1702

bandbox1727

unconfirmed1752

insubstantial1767

gossamery1790

thread-paper1803

gossamer1806

slimsy1845

unendurable1879

bandboxy1891

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z2 Of such subtile substance and vnsound, That like a ghost he seem'd, whose graue-clothes were vnbound.

1760 J. Beattie Hares in Orig. Poems & Transl. 170 Some new phænomenon..Which..From its high summit to the ground Proves the whole edifice unsound.

1800 R. Southey in Ann. Anthol. II. 3 The pile was ruinous, the base unsound.

1844 Act 7 & 8 Victoria c. 84 §46 If an unsound Party Wall..be pulled down and rebuilt.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. 126 The ice is too unsound for us to attempt to ride with a large team.

7. Of sleep: Broken or disturbed.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > type of sleep > disturbed or broken

unsound1584

broken1712

startling1718

1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Dii My sleepe vnsound hath dreadfull dreams.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	unsound
释义	† unsoundn. Etymology: un- prefix¹ 6. Compare Middle High German ungesunt (obsolete German ungesund ) in sense 1. Obsolete. 1. Physical unsoundness; malady or sickness; a wound or sore. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] unhealc700 untrumnessc897 adleeOE sicknessc967 cothec1000 unhealthc1000 woe?a1200 ail?c1225 lying?c1225 maladyc1275 unsoundc1275 feebless1297 languora1375 languishc1384 disease1393 aegritudea1400 lamea1400 maleasea1400 soughta1400 wilc1400 malefaction?a1425 firmityc1426 unwholesomenessc1449 ill1450 languenta1500 distemperancea1535 the valley of the shadow of death1535 affect?1537 affection?1541 distemperature1541 inability1547 sickliness1565 languishment1576 cause1578 unhealthfulness1589 crazedness1593 languorment1593 evilness1599 strickenness1599 craziness1602 distemper1604 unsoundness1605 invaletude1623 unhealthiness1634 achaque1647 unwellness1653 disailment1657 insalubrity1668 faintiness1683 queerness1687 invalidity1690 illness1692 ill health1698 ailment1708 illing1719 invalescence1724 peakingness1727 sickishness1727 valetudinariness1742 ailingness1776 brash1786 invalidism1794 poorliness1814 diseasement1826 invalidship1830 valetudinarianism1839 ailing1862 invalidhood1863 megrims1870 pourriture1890 immersement1903 bug1918 condition1920 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound woundc900 soreOE dolk?c1225 hurt?c1225 unsoundc1275 brokec1350 plaguea1382 lesurec1420 plaiea1470 blechure1483 wounding1581 bloodwipe1611 injurya1616 seat1634 trauma1684 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14630 Þe king him gon crepen an heonden and a futen swulc he mid un-sunde al uor-wunded weore. a1300 Marina 207 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 173 Þer heo lay mid vnsounde Fourteniht faste ybounde. c1315 Shoreham i. 82 Water wasscheþ þe felthe a-wey, Þer me wesscheþ by liste Þe on-sounde. 2. Harm, distress, annoyance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > annoyance or vexation teenOE dretchinga1050 taryingnessa1300 annoyc1300 dretch?13.. noyc1330 unquertc1390 noyinga1398 nuisancec1400 unsoundc1400 noisance1421 annuisancec1440 discumbrancea1500 noymentc1503 cumber?a1513 molesting1523 tary1528 irk1570 pester1581 incommodation1664 fasha1796 all-overs1893 buggeration1962 wind-up1984 c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 527 He þat is to rakel to renden his cloþez, Mot efte sitte with more vn-sounde to sewe hem togeder. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 58 Did not Ionas in Iude such Iape sum-whyle, To sette hym to sewrte, vnsounde he hym feches? 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bv Was neuer sa vnsound set to my hert. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020). unsoundadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈsaʊnd/, U.S. /ˌənˈsaʊnd/ Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1. Compare North Frisian ünsün (-sünj), Middle Low German unsund (hence Swedish osund, Danish usund); also Middle Dutch ongesont (Dutch ongezond), Middle Low German ungesund, Middle High German ungesunt (German ungesund). 1. a. Of persons, etc.: Not physically sound; unhealthy, diseased; †suffering from wounds or injuries. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded unsoundc1330 wounded1382 bruiseda1400 offended1440 sauciate1509 breached1547 vulnerated1598 interwounding1599 sauciated1657 struck1809 traumatized1935 the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3342 Wiþ diolful dintes sare, Vnsounde. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1175 Men wounded him and band Vnsounde. c1330 King of Tars 522 Summe heore scolles icleved, With serwe thei weore unsounde. a1450 Le Morte Arth. 2165 Oute of the felde was he drayne, For he was seke and sore vn-sounde. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 787 The wery ost..Wysche woundis with wyn off thaim that was wnsound. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. i. 1 The Queyn, with havy thochtis onsound, In euery vane nurisis the greyn wound. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1255 Þai hurlet hym fro horse fete, & of hond toke, Set hym in his sadill þof he vnsound were. 1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 311 Enuy..Shall find me solid, and her teeth vnsound. 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety viii. 211 And like an unsound limb, the healing of one Sore is the breaking out of another. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year (1896) 57 It brought abundance of unsound people to the markets. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 35 It seems as if one might work a lame horse thus, and keep his unsound leg quiet. 1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. i. 564 Merrily! merrily! never unsound, Shall our bonny black horses skim over the ground! 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight vi. 80 An eye with a high degree of short-sight is almost always an unsound one. b. transferred. Of wounds, ailments, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] morbous?a1425 unsoundc1540 naughty1572 sick1597 sicklya1616 morbifica1691 morbose1692 ill-conditioned1700 morbid1748 pathic1846 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 495 Medea the mylde..Wox pale for pyne..With a Sykyng vnsounde, þat sonet to hir hert. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iv. sig. Cc3 But that same Ladies hurts no herbe he found, Which could redresse, for it was inwardly vnsound . View more context for this quotation 1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age H 2 b I did neglect the smart: At length it rankled and it grew vnsound. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 425 The unsound appearances of the granulations show to what a stand the animal powers are put on such occasions. †c. quasi-adv., in to sigh unsound. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh [verb (intransitive)] sichec893 sikec1175 sigh1377 to sigh unsound?a1400 sightc1450 sithec1450 throb1557 to break a sigh1765 heave1820 sock1863 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3290 Ofte he syghede vn-sownde, and said theis wordes. a1440 Sir Degrev. 316 The eorl hovede and beheld..How they fayre in the feld, And syght unsound. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bv^v For pure sorow of that sight thai sighit vnsound. d. Of substances, plants, fruits, etc.: Not in sound or good condition. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] undisposedc1380 sicka1425 shrewdc1430 crazy1583 unsound1617 vitiated1620 depravate1665 depraveda1807 sickly1826 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 273 Officers..who ouersee the shambles, that no vnsound meate be sold. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 167 Some Lands will make unsound Cheese, notwithstanding all the Care the good Housewife can take. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 402 In some places the grapes are..picked from the stalks, and freed from all the unsound ones with great care. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 546/1 Shake the earth from the roots, cut off any unsound parts. 2. a. Morally corrupt or vitiated; wicked, evil. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective] sickc960 foulOE unwholec1000 thewlessa1327 corrupt1340 viciousc1340 unwholesomec1374 infecta1387 rustyc1390 unsound?a1400 rottenc1400 rotten-heartedc1405 cankereda1450 infectedc1449 wasted1483 depravate?1520 poisoned1529 deformed1555 poisonous1555 reprobate1557 corrupted1563 prave1564 base-minded1573 tainted1577 Gomorrhean1581 vice-like1589 depraved1593 debauched1598 deboshedc1598 tarish1601 sunk1602 speckled1603 deboist1604 diseased1608 ulcerous1611 vitial1614 debauchc1616 deboise1632 pravous1653 depravea1711 unhealthy1821 scrofulous1842 septic1914 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt foul-stinkingOE unwholesomec1374 corruptc1380 rotten1395 infecta1398 unsound?a1400 rotten-heartedc1405 infectedc1449 fly-blown1528 reprobate1531 corrupped1533 corrupted1563 poisoned1567 abusive?1585 debauched1598 deboshedc1598 deboist1604 debauchc1616 deboise1632 scrofulous1842 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3942 [He] ses theme alle in a soppe..With the Sarazenes vn-sownde enserclede a-bowte. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 575 Þe venym & þe vylanye & þe vycios fylþe, Þat by-sulpez mannez saule in vnsounde hert. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. iv. 9 That wherein vnsounder times haue done amisse, the better ages ensuing must rectifie, as they may. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. A7^v Seeking how she might the more inhaunce me, Though lewd my hauiour was, vnsound my carriage. 1811 C. Lamb Genius & Char. Hogarth in Wks. (1908) I. 107 That he..took a pleasure in exposing the unsound and rotten parts of human nature. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. iii. 130 If the people are unsound,..the nation perishes. b. Not sincere or true. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adjective] feignedc1374 unplaina1393 hollowa1529 hollow-hearted1549 foul1550 unsincere1577 insincere1634 unsound1714 lip-deep1802 lip-born1872 phoney1951 pseud1962 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 104 Boobyclod soon drops upon the ground, A certain token that his love's unsound. 3. Unwholesome, unhealthy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective] evilc1000 unsete1387 pestilenta1398 pestilentiala1398 unhealfulc1400 unthendec1425 unsetyc1440 unwholesomec1455 ill1488 pestifere1490 contagious1495 infectious1534 pestiferous1538 unhealthsome1544 unkindlyc1570 deletery1576 deleterious1587 bad1589 unhealthful1598 unsound1598 unhealthy1600 sickly1604 deleterial1621 tetrous1637 insalubrious1638 unseasoned1638 cankered1645 healthless1650 insalutary1694 maliferous1727 insanous1742 unsalubrious1781 unsanitary1872 insanitary1874 devitalizing1875 antihygienic1876 unhygienic1883 unhealthy-looking1890 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Insanare,..to make vnsound, or vnholsome. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 385 The Mine of Porto..is..of little benefit for want of workmen, by reason of the unsound ayre. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 179 In unsound Pasture they reckon it the best for Lambs to run with the Ewes. 1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Hill-farm 18 in Farm-rep. In summer they depasture on the unsound grass land. 4. Not mentally sound or normal; not sane. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Bi^v But we goe on, vnsound of memorie. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Aiv When all vnsounde her syster of lyke mynde Thus spake she to. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. iv. §298. 131 If a man of unsound memory..exchange the same land with a stranger. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 32 A debilitated Body, and unsound Mind. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. iii. 400 His Master sure..Must have confess'd the Slave unsound of Brain. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. (App.) 520 Finding that Nicholas Hume..was not an idiot or person of unsound mind. 1898 Daily News 9 Nov. 4/5 The jury found..that he was occasionally unsound in mind. 5. a. Not soundly based in reasoning or fact. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adjective] falsec1175 ungroundedc1380 ungroundable1395 erroneousc1400 wrongc1400 rotten1529 mistaken1540 sinistral1542 sinistrous1562 errorful1570 unsolid1593 unsound1595 misgrounded1606 mistaking1631 errorous1633 unbottomed1641 erratile1652 heterodox1654 unbased1860 misfelt1935 fuzzy1937 flaky1972 the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [adjective] > accepted, orthodox > not unsound1595 heterodox1654 1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xiii. sig. H2 Modesty, That suffers not one looke to glaunce awry, Which may let in a little thought vnsownd. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes 210 The ground of the objection is unsound. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 6 Therefore it is unsound to say that God [etc.]. 1746 Dunkin tr. Horace Epist. i. ii. 22 When doating Monarchs urge Unsound Resolves, their Subjects feel the Scourge. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV vii. 6 Waking Reason deems Such over-weening phantasies unsound. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 614 Their old theory, sound or unsound, was at least complete and coherent. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vi. 180 When they air their unsound criticism in public. b. Of persons in respect of opinion or belief. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [adjective] dwal-kennedc1175 misbelievedc1225 dwalea1325 misbelievingc1330 land-leaping1377 hereticc1384 heretical1532 sinistral1542 sinistrous1562 unsound1597 pseudo-religious1672 Manichaeistic1924 the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [adjective] > holding accepted beliefs > not unsound1597 inorthodox1657 heterodox1658 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lii. 110 So Eutyches of sound beliefe..became vnsound by denying the difference. a1658 J. Durham Comm. Revelation (1660) 187 If an unsound hypocriticall man may be sent Minister of Christ? 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 196 God tenderly covers Asa's frailty,..which he would not do for unsound Jehu. 1891 Ld. Acton in Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. (1906) 2/3 St. John, I have even heard, was unsound about Old Testament dates and authorships. 6. Lacking in solidity or firmness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] tender?c1225 feeble1340 infirmc1374 slight1393 weakc1400 sperec1440 silly1587 unsound1590 immaterial1609 paper1615 unsubstantiala1617 reedy1628 slighty1662 insufficient1700 flimsy1702 bandbox1727 unconfirmed1752 insubstantial1767 gossamery1790 thread-paper1803 gossamer1806 slimsy1845 unendurable1879 bandboxy1891 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z2 Of such subtile substance and vnsound, That like a ghost he seem'd, whose graue-clothes were vnbound. 1760 J. Beattie Hares in Orig. Poems & Transl. 170 Some new phænomenon..Which..From its high summit to the ground Proves the whole edifice unsound. 1800 R. Southey in Ann. Anthol. II. 3 The pile was ruinous, the base unsound. 1844 Act 7 & 8 Victoria c. 84 §46 If an unsound Party Wall..be pulled down and rebuilt. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. 126 The ice is too unsound for us to attempt to ride with a large team. 7. Of sleep: Broken or disturbed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > type of sleep > disturbed or broken unsound1584 broken1712 startling1718 1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Dii My sleepe vnsound hath dreadfull dreams. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † unsoundv. Etymology: un- prefix² 1d(b). Obsolete. 1. transitive. To tear or rend. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (transitive)] tearc1000 renta1325 reavea1400 lacerate?a1425 raise?a1425 rivea1425 shearc1450 unsoundc1450 ranch?a1525 rechec1540 pilla1555 wreathe1599 intertear1603 shark1611 vulture1628 to tear at1848 spalt1876 c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 97 Jacob sonnes thaire brothere cote with thaire handis vnsoundid. 2. To make unsound. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] sicka1340 distemperc1380 to bring low1530 distemperate1547 unsound1560 sicken1694 qualm1733 sicklify1851 1560 W. Baldwin Funeralles Edward VI sig. Aiv^v When thou hast his..person found, I will thou shalt his helthy body vnsound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020). unsoundadv. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈsaʊnd/, U.S. /ˌənˈsaʊnd/ Etymology: un- prefix¹ 5b. Not soundly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adverb] > in a disturbed or broken way unsound1595 unsoundly1828 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. lxii. sig. P3^v The now sad king..still muses, sleepes vnsound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1275adj.c1330v.c1450adv.1595
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