sound judgment

Questions about sound judgment

What does sound judgment mean?

sound judgment means "the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions".

What is another word for sound judgment?

Close synonyms include judgment, judgement, sound judgement, perspicacity. 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 sound judgment a common word?

sound judgment 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.