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    Raucous \Rau"cous\ (r[add]"k[u^]s), a. [L. raucus.]
    Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. "His voice
    slightly raucous." --Aytoun. --

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    raucous
    adj 1: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: strident]
    2: disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous
    party"; "rowdy teenagers" [syn: rowdy]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    78 Moby Thesaurus words for "raucous":
    absonant, atonal, boisterous, brassy, brazen, brusque, cacophonous,
    choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, diaphonic, disconsonant,
    discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, disorderly, dissonant, dry,
    ear-splitting, flat, grating, gruff, guttural, harsh,
    harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, immelodious, inharmonic,
    inharmonious, jarring, loud, metallic, musicless, noisy,
    nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone,
    out of tune, piercing, ragged, rasping, raucid, rough, roupy,
    rowdy, rowdyish, rude, rumbustious, scratching, scratchy, sharp,
    shrill, sour, squawking, squawky, stertorous, strangled, strident,
    stridulous, termagant, thick, throaty, tinny, tumultuous, tuneless,
    unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, unruly, untunable, untuned,
    untuneful

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


rowdy, strident


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