SOUNDLY Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

soundly

adverb

Definition of soundly next

as in fully

to a full extent or degree we'll keep working at it until you're soundly satisfied with the result

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Recent Examples of soundly Even so, the council’s budget was soundly rejected at each of the five polling places as well as in the absentee ballot count. —

Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026 The three-way race heated up earlier this year when Kiros soundly defeated DeGette in the Democrats’ Denver County assembly. —

Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 31 May 2026 There was a defeat with Frankfurt in the final of the same competition, against the same opponent in 2023, and they were also soundly beaten by Napoli in the last 16 of the Champions League that season. —

Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 27 May 2026 Last year, Swiss scientists showed that AI models soundly beat humans on emotional intelligence tests. —

Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 In one of the most expensive congressional primary races ever, Massie was soundly defeated by Ed Gallrein. —

Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 May 2026 Ed Gallrein, a Navy SEAL backed by the president, soundly defeated the seven-term representative Thomas Massie in Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional District. —

Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026 Light energy harnessed in the real world was now playing through the radio of his car in the dream world in the form of melodious static that lulled him either to sleep soundly or to be sound asleep. —

Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026 Voters in 2016 soundly defeated a measure that would have raised council member pay to $45,000 and mayoral pay to $60,000. —

Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2026

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In an unusual twist, many of the songs that would eventually appear throughout the season were written before the writers’ room fully mapped out the story.

— Precious Fondren, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
Under the partnership, Destinus will provide the missiles’ core technology while Rheinmetall will supply warheads and booster rocket motors, creating what the companies describe as a fully European deep-strike missile portfolio.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026