Raucous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Raucous \Rau"cous\ (r[add]"k[u^]s), a. [L. raucus.]
     Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. "His voice
     slightly raucous." --Aytoun. -- {Rau"cous*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  raucous
       adj 1: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: {strident}]
       2: disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous
          party"; "rowdy teenagers" [syn: {rowdy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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