Antonyms for raucous
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : raw-kuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɔ kəs |
Definition of raucous
Origin :- 1769, from Latin raucus "hoarse" (also source of French rauque, Spanish ronco, Italian rauco), related to ravus "hoarse," from PIE echoic base *reu- "make hoarse cries" (cf. Sanskrit rayati "barks," ravati "roars;" Greek oryesthai "to howl, roar;" Latin racco "a roar;" Old Church Slavonic rjevo "I roar;" Lithuanian rekti "roar;" Old English rarian "to wail, bellow"). Middle English had rauc in the same sense, from the same source.
- adj noisy, rough
- adj rowdy
- "Cottonton" was a mass of frantic arms, raucous voices, white faces.
- Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
- For a while, Oliver Symmes heard the raucous music of the crowd.
- Extract from : « Life Sentence » by James McConnell
- His voice was so deep and raucous that it seemed to jar the soles of her feet.
- Extract from : « The Nebuly Coat » by John Meade Falkner
- They roared the raucous song of freedom, and faster and faster they charged.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- Cochran's voice rose above the clamor of the room in a raucous whoop.
- Extract from : « Terry » by Charles Goff Thomson
- "I can't take issue with you here," he said with a raucous laugh.
- Extract from : « Fibble, D. D. » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
- She too was looking at the booth, she heard the man's monotonous, raucous cries.
- Extract from : « The Elusive Pimpernel » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- But still unabated, agonised, raucous, came the sounds of Harran's breathing.
- Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
- It was a raucous howl of execration, a bellow of rage, inarticulate, deafening.
- Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
- From it the voice to the city is often a pious one, an impious one, and almost always a raucous one.
- Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
Synonyms for raucous
- absonant
- acute
- atonal
- blaring
- blatant
- boisterous
- braying
- brusque
- cacophonous
- discordant
- disorderly
- dissonant
- dry
- ear-piercing
- grating
- grinding
- gruff
- harsh
- hoarse
- husky
- inharmonious
- intemperate
- jarring
- loud
- piercing
- rambunctious
- rasping
- sharp
- squawking
- stertorous
- strident
- thick
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- unharmonious
- unmusical
- unruly
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