1 if you sleep soundly, you sleep very well and very deeply
2 in a way that is sensible or can be relied on:
Your information is soundly based. * a soundly-based conclusion
3 completely and thoroughly:
The team was soundly defeated.
4 strongly; firmly:
These houses are soundly built.
5 very well, but not in an excellent way:
He played soundly.
6 (of physical punishment) severely:
He was soundly beaten by his mother.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for soundly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is soundly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, soundly is tagged as adverb.
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