of sound mind

1. 1.

   of sound mind, memory, and understanding; in law, competent to go to trial

   Synonymscompos mentis

   Similarsane

Questions about of sound mind

What does of sound mind mean?

of sound mind means "of sound mind, memory, and understanding; in law, competent to go to trial".

What is another word for of sound mind?

Close synonyms include compos mentis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is of sound mind a common word?

of sound mind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.