raucous as an adjective: - 1
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raucous
adjective
1 raucous
Unpleasantly loud and harsh.
synonym: strident.
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.
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2 raucous
Disturbing the public peace; loud and rough:
— A raucous party.
synonym: rowdy.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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