Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion:
— Hoarse cries.

synonyms: gruff, husky.

Roget 405: inaudible; scarcely audible, just audible; low, dull; stifled, muffled; hoarse, husky; gentle, soft, faint; floating; purling, flowing etc. v.; whispered etc. v.; liquid; soothing; dulcet etc. (melodious) 413; susurrant^†, susurrous^†.    ... show more

Roget 410: creaking etc. v.; stridulous^†, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous^†, rough, gruff, grum^†, sepulchral, hollow.    sharp, high, acute, shrill; trumpet-toned; piercing, ear-piercing, high-pitched, high-toned; cracked; discordant etc. 414; cacophonous.    ... show more

Roget 581: 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 etc. (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.    croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.    ... show more

Polish: chropawy, chropowaty, szorstki