hoarse
Meaning of hoarse
adjective
- (of a person's voice) sounding rough and harsh, typically as the result of a sore throat or of shouting.
a hoarse whisper
Old English hās, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hees . The spelling with r was influenced in Middle English by an Old Norse cognate.
Information about hoarse
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of hoarse
hoarse
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- hoarse is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
hoarse synonyms
Meaning gruff:
Meaning (of a voice) harsh and rasping:
Meaning unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses:
Meaning (of a person's voice) deep and hoarse:
Meaning (of a frog or crow) make a characteristic deep hoarse sound:
Meaning (of a voice or other sound) deep and husky:
Meaning (of a speech sound) produced in the throat; harsh-sounding:
Meaning resembling, containing, or consisting of gravel:
Meaning making a low, guttural sound:
Meaning damaged and showing lines on the surface from having split without coming apart:
Meaning sounding harsh and unpleasant:
Meaning harsh-sounding and unpleasant; grating:
Meaning making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise:
hoarse antonyms
Meaning (especially of a sound, flavour, or colour) pleasantly smooth or soft; free from harshness:
Meaning easy to mould, cut, compress, or fold; not hard or firm to the touch:
Anagrams of hoarse
ahorse, ashore, Shorea, shorea
Words that rhyme with hoarse
arse, barse, carse, Nodarse, Pearse, behearse, demihearse, enhearse, hearse, inhearse, misrehearse, phearse, rehearse, unhearse, farse, garse, marse, coarse, uncoarse, beparse, misparse, parse, sparse, unsparse, metatarse, smartarse, tarse, warse
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