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Another word for well-grounded

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Adjective

  1. Possessing, proceeding from, or exhibiting good judgment and prudence

      1. Having the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious:
      2. Exhibiting common sense; prudent:
      3. Shrewd; crafty:
      1. Based on sound judgment, reasoning, or evidence; adequately substantiated:
      1. Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
      2. Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
      3. The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
      1. Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
      2. Not ornate or impractical:
      3. Having a perception of something; cognizant:
      1. Having great wisdom and discernment.
      1. Of sound mind; mentally healthy:
      2. Having or showing sound judgment; reasonable.
      1. One venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom.
      2. Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment.
      3. Proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment:
      1. Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness.
      1. Capable of reasoning; rational:
      2. Governed by or being in accordance with reason or sound thinking:
      3. Being within the bounds of common sense:
      1. Having or exercising the ability to reason.
      2. Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
      3. Of sound mind; sane:
      1. Careful or wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense:
      2. Characterized by or resulting from care or wisdom in practical matters or in planning for the future:
      1. Characteristically self-composed and sensible.
      1. Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent.
      1. Referring to electrical symmetry. A balanced line or balanced medium such as twisted pair, in which both twisted pair conductors serve for signal transmission and reception. Each conductor carries a similar electrical signal with identical direct and return current paths.At any given point in the cable, the signals are equal in voltage to ground but opposite in polarity, which has the effect of reducing radiated energy and, therefore, reducing attenuation. See also unbalanced and UTP.
      2. Referring to symmetrical relationship. For example, the X.25 protocol suite includes Link Access Procedure-Balanced (LAP-B), a balanced protocol that operates in Asynchronous Balanced Mode (ABM), which refers to the fact that the devices have a balanced, rather than a master/slave, relationship.Therefore, a device at either end of the link can initiate a dialogue at any time. See also ABM, LAP-B, master/slave, and X.25.
    See also:

    sane

    reason

  2. Based on good judgment, reasoning, or evidence

      1. Based on sound judgment, reasoning, or evidence; adequately substantiated:
      1. Well grounded; just:
      2. Producing the desired results; efficacious:
      3. Having legal force; effective or binding:
      1. Fixed or fastened firmly in place:
      2. Stretched or drawn out fully:
      3. Of such close construction as to be impermeable:
      1. Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
      2. Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
      3. The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
      1. Of definite shape and volume; not liquid or gaseous:
      2. Of or relating to three-dimensional geometric figures or bodies.
      3. Firm or compact in substance:
      1. Honorable and fair in one's dealings and actions:
      2. Consistent with what is morally right; righteous:
      3. Properly due or merited:
      1. Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing:
    See also:

    reason

    good

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Sentence Examples

  • As deputy he had no vote, and he naturally took little share in the debates, but it was part of his duty to send written reports of the proceedings to his patron, since the government, with a well-grounded fear of all that might stir popular feeling, refused to allow any published reports.

  • He was not well grounded in any of the elementary branches, which are essential to university studies and to all success in their prosecution.

  • The bases upon which Gerhardt and Laurent founded their views were not sufficiently well grounded to lead to the acceptance of their results; Gerhardt himself returned to Gmelin's equivalents in his Lehrbuch der Chemie (1853) as they were in such general use.

  • De Rossi thinks the identification well grounded (Bullettino, 1881, p. 74).

  • Rowland had never been to a university, but, like Harris, he had been well grounded in general knowledge.

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