gruffer
Meaning of gruffer
adjective, comparative adjective
- (of a voice) rough and low in pitch.
she spoke with a gruff, masculine voice
late 15th century (in the sense ‘coarse-grained’): from Flemish and Dutch grof ‘coarse, rude’, of West Germanic origin.
Information about gruffer
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which gruffer is used:
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Hyphenation of gruffer
gruffer
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- gruffer is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
gruffer synonyms
Meaning (of a voice) harsh and rasping:
Meaning (of a person's voice) sounding rough and harsh, typically as the result of a sore throat or of shouting:
Meaning unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses:
Meaning (of a speech sound) produced in the throat; harsh-sounding:
Meaning (of a voice or other sound) deep and husky:
Meaning (of a voice or utterance) sounding low-pitched and slightly hoarse:
Meaning (of a frog or crow) make a characteristic deep hoarse sound:
Meaning harsh-sounding and unpleasant; grating:
Meaning hoarse or harsh-sounding:
Meaning (of a voice) deep and rough-sounding:
Meaning making a low, guttural sound:
Meaning (of an animal, especially a dog) making a low guttural sound in the throat that indicates hostility:
Meaning of less than average height from top to bottom or to the top from the ground:
Meaning with opposite sides or surfaces that are far or relatively far apart:
gruffer antonyms
Meaning easy to mould, cut, compress, or fold; not hard or firm to the touch:
Meaning (especially of a sound, flavour, or colour) pleasantly smooth or soft; free from harshness:
Words that rhyme with gruffer
Affer, Schaffer, Shaffer, caffer, chaffer, flaffer, gaffer, graffer, naffer, piaffer, quaffer, scaffer, sclaffer, staffer, zaffer, Bonhoeffer, Keffer, Kieffer, Pfeffer, Rodeheffer, Schaeffer, Schrieffer, Shaeffer, deffer, hasenpfeffer, hassenpfeffer, Giffer, Jeniffer, Peiffer, chiffer, differ, niffer, sniffer, squiffer, stiffer, triffer, whiffer, Christoffer, Hoffer, Kristoffer, Soffer, choffer, coffer, counteroffer, doffer, feoffer, fogscoffer, foreproffer, goffer, offer
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