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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

hoarse, rough, or harsh in sound;

e.g. The old woman spoke with a raspy voice.

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Similar Words

Atonal

Brooding

Choleric

Coarse

Crabby

Cranky

Cross

Cross-grained

Crotchety

Disharmonious

Fiery

Fretful

Grating

Gravel

Gravelly

Grouchy

Gruff

Grumpy

Guttural

Hoarse

Husky

Hypersensitive

Irascible

Irritable

Off-key

Oversensitive

Peevish

Perverse

Petulant

Prickly

Quick-tempered

Ratty

Scratchy

Short-tempered

Snappish

Snappy

Snarky

Snippety

Snippy

Stroppy

Stuffy

Supersensitive

Tempered

Testy

Throaty

Tuneless

Unartistic

Wasp

Waspish

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Opposite Words

Affable

Agreeable

Amiable

Canorous

Carefree

Chordal

Companionable

Cordial

Easygoing

Euphonious

Extroverted

Friendly

Gentle

Golden

Good-natured

Good-tempered

Gregarious

Happy-go-lucky

Harmonious

Liquid

Long-suffering

Lyric

Lyrical

Mellifluous

Mellow

Melodious

Musical

Obliging

Orchestral

Outgoing

Patient

Relaxed

Satiny

Silken

Smooth

Sociable

Soothing

Stoic

Sweet

Symphonic

Tender

Tolerant

Tuneful

Uncomplaining

Understanding

Velvety

Well-disposed

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Related Words

Abrasive

Argumentative

Bearish

Bellicose

Belligerent

Bilious

Cantankerous

Combative

Contentious

Cracked

Cross-grained

Disagreeable

Discordant

Disputatious

Dissonant

Fractious

Fretful

Glum

Grating

Grotesque

Growling

Guttural

Harsh

Hot-blooded

Huffy

Ill-humored

Ill-natured

Ill-tempered

Inharmonious

Jarring

Off-color

Ornery

Passionate

Pouty

Pugnacious

Quarrelsome

Querulous

Raucous

Rough

Screeching

Sensitive

Short

Strained

Strident

Sulky

Sullen

Surly

Tetchy

Thin-skinned

Ticklish

Touchy

Truculent

Unaesthetic

Unmusical

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