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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