different between guttural vs raucous

English

Etymology

From Middle French guttural, from New Latin guttur?lis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t???l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [???????]
• Rhymes: -?t???l

Adjective

guttural (comparative more guttural, superlative most guttural)

1. Sounding harsh and throaty.
2. (phonetics) Articulated at the back of the mouth.
3. (medicine, anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.

Translations

Noun

guttural (plural gutturals)

1. A harsh and throaty spoken sound

Translations

French

Etymology

From New Latin guttur?lis.

Adjective

guttural (feminine singular gutturale, masculine plural gutturaux, feminine plural gutturales)

1. guttural (of a consonant)
2. guttural (relating to the throat)

Further reading

• “guttural” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tu??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

guttural (comparative gutturaler, superlative am gutturalsten)

1. guttural

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin raucus (“hoarse, husky, raucous”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????k?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???k?s/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /???k?s/
• Hyphenation: raucous
• Rhymes: -??k?s

Adjective

raucous (comparative more raucous, superlative most raucous)

1. Harsh and rough-sounding.

   At night, raucous sounds come from the swamp.

2. Disorderly and boisterous.

   Acts of vandalism were committed by a raucous gang of drunkards.
3. Loud and annoying.

   The new neighbors had a raucous party.

Synonyms

• (disorderly and boisterous): rowdy

Derived terms

• raucously
• raucousness
• unraucous

Translations

See also

• ruckus