safe and sound

1. 1.

   free from danger or injury

   “the children were found safe and sound”

   Synonymsunhurt

   Similarsafe

Questions about safe and sound

What does safe and sound mean?

safe and sound means "free from danger or injury".

What is another word for safe and sound?

Close synonyms include unhurt. 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 safe and sound a common word?

safe and sound 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.