raspy

• abrasive
• argumentative
• bearish
• bellicose
• belligerent
• bilious
• cacophonous
• cantankerous
• cawing
• choked
• choleric
• coarse
• combative
• contentious
• crabby
• cracked
• cranky
• croaking
• croaky
• cross
• cross-grained
• crotchety
• curmudgeonly
• disagreeable
• discordant
• disputatious
• dissonant
• dry
• dyspeptic
• fiery
• fractious
• fretful
• grating
• gravel
• gravelly
• grinding
• grouchy
• growling
• growly
• gruff
• grumpy
• guttural
• harsh
• hoarse
• hot-blooded
• huffy
• husky
• ill-humored
• ill-natured
• ill-tempered
• inharmonious
• irascible
• irritable
• jarring
• off-color
• off-colored
• ornery
• out of humor
• out of sorts
• passionate
• peevish
• perverse
• pettish
• petulant
• pouty
• prickly
• pugnacious
• quarrelsome
• querulous
• quick-tempered
• rasping
• ratty
• raucous
• rough
• rusty
• scraping
• scrappy
• scratching
• scratchy
• screeching
• sensitive
• short
• short-tempered
• snappish
• snappy
• snarky
• snarly
• snippety
• snippy
• squawking
• strained
• strangled
• strident
• stuffy
• sulky
• sullen
• surly
• testy
• tetchy
• thick
• thin-skinned
• throaty
• touchy
• truculent
• unmelodious
• unmusical
• waspish

• affable
• agreeable
• amiable
• carefree
• companionable
• cordial
• easygoing
• euphonious
• extraverted
• extroverted
• forbearing
• friendly
• genial
• gentle
• gliding
• golden
• good-natured
• good-tempered
• gregarious
• happy-go-lucky
• liquid
• long-suffering
• lyric
• lyrical
• mellifluent
• mellifluous
• mellow
• melodic
• melodious
• musical
• obliging
• outgoing
• patient
• relaxed
• satiny
• silken
• smooth
• sociable
• soft
• soothing
• stoic
• stoical
• sweet
• tender
• tolerant
• uncomplaining
• understanding
• velvety
• well-disposed

• adjective
  1. (of sound) Rough, raw, especially used to describe vocal quality.
  2. Irritable.

• His raspy voice made him sound older than he actually was.
• After shouting all day, her throat felt sore and raspy.
• The singer’s raspy tone gave the song a unique character.
• The old man’s raspy breathing worried the doctor.
• He spoke in a raspy whisper, barely audible over the noise.

abrading

• abrasive
• attritive
• barking
• biting
• breaking down
• breaking up
• bruising
• burning
• caustic
• chafing
• chewing
• clawing
• coarse
• contusing
• corrading
• corroding
• cutting
• decomposing
• disintegrating
• dissolving
• eating
• enflaming
• erasing
• eroding
• erosion
• erosive
• excoriating
• exquisite
• fierce
• filing
• flaying
• forceful
• forcible
• fraying
• frazzling
• fretting
• galling
• gnawing
• grating
• grazing
• grim
• grinding
• gruff
• hard
• harsh
• heavy-handed
• honing
• inflaming
• intense
• irritating
• lacerating
• nibbling
• oppressive
• peeling
• pitiless
• powerful
• rasping
• raspy
• reducing
• rough
• roughened
• roughening
• rubbing
• rubbing out
• rude
• rugged
• sandblasting
• sandpapering
• savage
• scarifying
• scathing
• scouring
• scraping
• scratching
• scratchy
• scuffing
• severe
• sharpening
• shaving
• skinning
• stern
• stiff
• strong
• tyrannic
• tyrannical
• ungentle
• violent
• wearing
• wearing out
• whetting

cacophonous

• atonal
• blaring
• clamorous
• clanging
• clangorous
• clashing
• clattering
• clinking
• dinning
• disagreeable
• discordant
• disharmonic
• dissonant
• grating
• harsh
• ill-sounding
• immusical
• inharmonious
• jangling
• jangly
• jarring
• metallic
• noisy
• off-key
• raspy
• raucous
• resounding
• scratching
• screeching
• shrill
• sonorous
• sour
• squeaky
• strident
• tuneless
• unmelodious
• unmusical
• unpleasant
• unpleasing
• unvocal
• uproarious

coarsely

• X-rated
• abhorrent
• abrasive
• abusive
• animallike
• artlessly
• atrocious
• bad
• barbaric
• barbarous
• barbarously
• bargain-basement
• barnyard
• bawdy
• blamable
• blameworthy
• blue
• bluntly
• boorish
• boorishly
• brazenly
• broad
• broken
• brummagem
• bum
• bumpy
• burred
• cacophonous
• cawing
• censurable
• cheap
• cheapjack
• cheesy
• choked
• churlish
• cloddish
• clownish
• clumsy
• coarse-grained
• common
• contemptuously
• counterfeit
• countrified
• countryfied
• cracked
• crappy
• crass
• crassly
• croaking
• croaky
• crude
• crudely
• curtly
• cut-rate
• debasing
• depraved
• dirty
• discordant
• discourteously
• disgusting
• disrespectfully
• dissonant
• distasteful
• earthy
• el cheapo
• exceptionable
• execrable
• fake
• filthy
• flashy
• foul
• gamey
• gamy
• garish
• gaudy
• gimcrack
• glitzy
• graceless
• grained
• grainy
• granular
• granulated
• grating
• gravel
• gravelly
• grinding
• gritty
• gross
• growling
• growly
• gruff
• gutter
• guttural
• hard-core
• harsh
• harshly
• hoarse
• husky
• ill-bred
• illiberal
• immodest
• imprudently
• impure
• inconsiderate
• incult
• indecent
• indecently
• indecorous
• indecorously
• indelicate
• indifferent
• inelegant
• inexact
• infamous
• inferior
• inharmonious
• insensible
• insensitive
• insolently
• irregular
• jagged
• jarring
• junky
• kibbled
• kinky
• kitsch
• kitschy
• knobbly
• knobby
• knurled
• knurly
• lackluster
• lascivious
• lewd
• loathsome
• locker-room
• lopsided
• louche
• loudly
• lousy
• loutish
• low
• low-grade
• low-rent
• lowbred
• lowbrow
• lubberly
• lumpish
• lumpy
• mannerless
• mealy
• mediocre
• meretricious
• miserable
• nasty
• naughty
• nonuniform
• nubbly
• nubby
• oafish
• objectionable
• obnoxious
• obscene
• off
• off-color
• off-colored
• offensive
• ostentatious
• pebbly
• perverse
• perverted
• phoney
• phony
• pitted
• pocked
• poor
• pornographic
• porny
• profane
• provincial
• racy
• raffish
• ragged
• rasping
• raspy
• raucous
• raunchy
• repellant
• repellent
• reprehensible
• repugnant
• repulsive
• revolting
• ribald
• rocky
• rotten
• rough
• rough-hewn
• roughened
• roughly
• roughneck
• rubbishy
• rude
• rudely
• rugged
• rustic
• rustical
• rusty
• rutted
• rutty
• salacious
• salty
• sandpapery
• sandy
• sassily
• scatological
• schlock
• schlocky
• scraggly
• scraggy
• scraping
• scratching
• scratchy
• screeching
• scurrilous
• second-class
• second-rate
• seedy
• shabby
• sham
• sharply
• shlock
• shlocky
• shoddy
• showy
• sleazy
• smutty
• snootily
• soft
• soft-core
• splashy
• squawking
• stag
• stoney
• stony
• strained
• strangled
• strident
• suggestive
• supercheap
• swank
• swanky
• tacky
• tactlessly
• tasteless
• tawdry
• terrible
• thoughtless
• throaty
• trashy
• trumpery
• ultracheap
• unabashedly
• unacceptable
• unaligned
• unbalanced
• unbecoming
• uncivilized
• uncivilly
• uncouth
• uncouthly
• uncultivated
• uncultured
• undesirable
• undulating
• undulatory
• uneven
• unfiltered
• ungentlemanly
• ungraciously
• unmannered
• unmannerly
• unmelodious
• unmusical
• unpleasant
• unpolished
• unprintable
• unrefined
• unsophisticated
• unwanted
• unwelcome
• useless
• valueless
• vulgar
• vulgarly
• wanton
• wavy
• wicked
• worthless
• wretched

grotesque

• Frankenstein
• aberrant
• abhorrent
• abnormal
• abnormality
• abominable
• abomination
• absurd
• acid
• anathema
• antic
• appalling
• artless
• awful
• banshee
• bizarre
• blaring
• bogey
• bogeyman
• bogie
• bogy
• bogyman
• bugaboo
• bugbear
• clashing
• clumsy
• crude
• daemon
• deformed
• demon
• devil
• disagreeable
• discordant
• disgusting
• disharmonious
• dissonant
• distasteful
• distorted
• dreadful
• eerie
• extravagant
• extreme
• fanciful
• fantastic
• fiend
• flamboyant
• flashy
• freak
• freakish
• fright
• frumpish
• frumpy
• garish
• gaudy
• graceless
• grating
• grody
• gross
• grotesquerie
• grotesquery
• harsh
• hideous
• homely
• horrible
• horrid
• horror
• ill-favored
• imp
• inartistic
• incongruous
• incubus
• inelegant
• inharmonious
• jangling
• jarring
• jolting
• kinky
• loathsome
• loud
• ludicrous
• malformed
• monster
• monstrosity
• monstrous
• mutant
• mutation
• nauseating
• nauseous
• noisome
• obscene
• odd
• off-key
• ogre
• ogress
• outlandish
• perverted
• plain
• preposterous
• ragged
• raspy
• raucous
• repellant
• repellent
• repugnant
• repulsive
• revolting
• ridiculous
• rude
• shocking
• sickening
• strange
• surrealistic
• tacky
• tasteless
• tawdry
• terror
• ugly
• unaesthetic
• unappealing
• unartistic
• unattractive
• unbeautiful
• unbecoming
• uncanny
• uncomely
• uncouth
• uncultured
• unhandsome
• unlovely
• unmelodious
• unmusical
• unnatural
• unpleasant
• unpleasing
• unpretty
• unrefined
• unshapely
• unsightly
• vile
• vulgar
• weird
• whimsical

jangling

• acrid
• antagonistic
• antipathetic
• asperous
• astringent
• at odds
• atonal
• babbling
• bitter
• blabbering
• blaring
• blatant
• blathering
• bleak
• bleating
• blithering
• boisterous
• bonging
• bumbling
• cacophonic
• cacophonous
• caterwauling
• chattering
• chatting
• chiming
• chinking
• chuntering
• clamorous
• clanging
• clangorous
• clanking
• clashing
• clattering
• clinking
• coarse
• contradictory
• contrarient
• contrary
• cracked
• craggy
• creaking
• croaking
• different
• ding-donging
• dinging
• dinning
• disagreeable
• disagreeing
• discordant
• discrepant
• disharmonic
• disharmonious
• dissonant
• disturbing
• divergent
• driveling
• drivelling
• drooling
• dry
• earsplitting
• echoing
• flat
• gabbing
• gabbling
• gibbering
• glaring
• gonging
• grating
• grim
• guttural
• hard
• harsh
• hoarse
• incompatible
• incongruous
• inconsistent
• inconsonant
• inharmonic
• inharmonious
• jabbering
• jagged
• jangly
• jarring
• jawing
• jingling
• knelling
• loud
• maundering
• metallic
• mouthing
• mumbling
• murmuring
• muttering
• noisy
• not smooth
• obstreperous
• off-key
• on a sour note
• opposite
• out-of-key
• out-of-tune
• pattering
• pealing
• pinging
• plinking
• plonking
• plunking
• prating
• prattling
• quarreling
• rasping
• raspy
• rattling
• raucous
• resonating
• resounding
• reverberating
• rigid
• ringing
• rough
• rude
• rugged
• running on
• rusty
• scratching
• scratchy
• screeching
• severe
• sharp
• shouting
• shrieking
• shrill
• smattering
• sonorous
• sour
• sputtering
• squawky
• squeaky
• stammering
• stentorian
• stertorous
• strident
• stridulant
• stridulous
• stuttering
• tanging
• tingling
• tinkling
• tittle-tattling
• tolling
• trolling
• tuneless
• uncongenial
• uneven
• unharmonious
• unlevel
• unmelodious
• unmixable
• unmusical
• unpleasant
• unpleasing
• unrelenting
• unvocal
• uproarious
• vociferant
• vociferous
• yacking
• yakking

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