Definition of hoarser Hoarser
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What does hoarser mean?
Part of speech
🔤- hoarser, adjective, comparative of hoarse.
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| hoarse - deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson | ||
| gruff, husky | ||
| cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hoarse (superl.)
Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven. - hoarse (superl.)
Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hoarse
hōrs, adj. having a harsh, grating voice, as from a cold: harsh: discordant.—adv. Hoarse′ly.—n. Hoarse′ness. [A.S. hás; Ice. háss, this prob. for hárs, throwing light on the M. E. hôrs, hoors, Scot. hairsh, &c.]
