Hoarse synonyms and antonyms
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Category:
Part of speech:
Stormy; tempestuous
Not smooth or level:
Hard to hear or understand, as from being husky or slurred:
loud (related)
(Of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
stridulous
Relating to or characterized by stridor.
phonasthenia
tremulous (related)
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Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
shrill (related)
Characterized or accompanied by shrill sounds
The definition of discordant is a type of sound that clashes with the tone of the music being played.
Hoarse; harsh:
Harsh-sounding; shrill; grating
Hoarse or rough in quality:
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Broken so that fissures appear on the surface:
Harsh; strident
Of or relating to the throat.
Of, full of, or covered with rock fragments or pebbles:
Not producing a liquid substance that is normally produced:
Trenchant; incisive:
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Associated with whispers
(Usage Problem) Totally or offensively conspicuous or obtrusive:
absonant
(Now rare) Discordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
Difficult to understand or make out:
Easily irritated
Hoarse; rough-sounding
Recently finished; fresh:
Making a harsh scratching noise:
raucity
Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness.
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stridency
The quality of being strident.
stridor
A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
stridulation
A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
soft (antonym)
Not stern; lenient:
smooth (antonym)
Having a fine texture:
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(Typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant
That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
sounds (related)
Low and grating in sound
barely audible (related)
muffle (related)
hoarsely (related)
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growl (related)
plaintive (related)
yelp (related)
pure (antonym)
(Linguistics) Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal:
mellifluous (antonym)
Having a pleasant and fluid sound:
Making squawking sounds.
shrilly (related)
high-pitched (related)
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