raucous
Use Raucous in a sentence
kəs adjective
1.
harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
2.
rowdy; disorderly: a raucous party.
Related forms
rau·cous·ly, adverb
Synonyms
1. rough, jarring, raspy.
1. rough, jarring, raspy.
Antonyms
1. soft, mellow, dulcet.
1. soft, mellow, dulcet.
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raucous (ˈrɔːkəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| (of voices, cries, etc) harshly or hoarsely loud | |
| [C18: from Latin raucus hoarse] | |
| 'raucously | |
| —adv | |
| 'raucousness | |
| —n | |
| raucity | |
| —n | |
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Raucous
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | raucous1 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | rough; hoarse |
| Etymology: | Latin raucus 'hoarse' |
| Main Entry: | raucous2 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | boisterous and disorderly |
| Etymology: | Latin raucus 'hoarse' |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
raucous
1769, from L. raucus "hoarse," related to ravus "hoarse," from PIE echoic base *reu- "make hoarse cries" (cf. Skt. rayati "barks," ravati "roars;" Gk. oryesthai "to howl, roar;" L. racco "a roar;" O.C.S. rjevo "I roar;" Lith. rekti "roar;" O.E. rarian "to wail, bellow"). M.E. had rauc, in the same sense,
from the same source.
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Example sentences
The session had none of the raucous air of precinct meetings you see on cop shows.
Despite the raucous comedy, you still manage to fit in some beautiful scenes that are reminiscent of your earlier work.
Nor, apart from a handful of raucous gatherings when the news first broke, has there been much jingoism.
The players climbed aboard two buses, and a raucous parade followed them on the five-mile drive to the stadium.
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