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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective raucous has 2 senses
- raucous(s = adj.all) strident - unpleasantly loud and harsh; Array
- raucous(s = adj.all) rowdy - disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"
CIDE DICTIONARY
raucous, a. [L. raucus.].
Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
raucous, adj. harsh-sounding, loud and hoarse.
Derivative
raucously adv. raucousness n.
Etymology
L raucus
THESAURUS
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, untunefulROGET THESAURUS
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Aphony
N aphony, aphonia, dumbness, obmutescence, absence of voice, want of voice, dysphony, cacoepy, silence, raucity, harsh voice &c, unmusical voice, falsetto, childish treble mute, dummy, aphonous, dumb, mute, deafmute, deaf and dumb, mum, tongue-tied, breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless, mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel, silent, muzzled, inarticulate, inaudible, croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven, rough, with bated breath, with the finger on the lips, sotto voce, in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice, vox faucibus haesit.
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