hoarse

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

hoarse, a. [OE. hors, also hos, has, AS. hās; akin to D. heesch, G. heiser, Icel. hāss, Dan. hæs, Sw. hes. Cf. Prov. E. heazy.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "The hoarse resounding shore."  [1913 Webster]
•  Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hoarse, adj.
1 (of the voice) rough and deep; husky; croaking.
2 having such a voice.

Derivative

hoarsely adv. hoarsen v.tr. & intr. hoarseness n.

Etymology

ME f. ON hars (unrecorded) f. Gmc

THESAURUS

hoarse

blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, grating, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, jarring, lisping, metallic, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, quavering, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, squawking, squawky, stertorous, stifled, strangled, strident, stridulous, thick, throaty, tinny, tremulous, twangy, velar

ROGET THESAURUS

hoarse

Aphony

N aphony, aphonia, dumbness, obmutescence, absence of voice, want of voice, dysphony, cacoepy, silence, raucity, harsh voice &c, unmusical voice, falsetto, childish treble mute, dummy, aphonous, dumb, mute, deafmute, deaf and dumb, mum, tongue-tied, breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless, mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel, silent, muzzled, inarticulate, inaudible, croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven, rough, with bated breath, with the finger on the lips, sotto voce, in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice, vox faucibus haesit.

Faintness

N faintness, faint sound, whisper, breath, undertone, underbreath, murmur, hum, susurration, tinkle, still small voice, hoarseness, raucity, inaudible, scarcely audible, just audible, low, dull, stifled, muffled, hoarse, husky, gentle, soft, faint, floating, purling, flowing, whispered, liquid, soothing, dulcet, susurrant, susurrous, in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce, between the teeth, aside, piano, pianissimo, d la sourdine, out of earshot inaudibly, (ii) SPECIFIC SOUNDS.

Stridor

N stridor, creak, creaking, discord, stridor, roughness, sharpness cacophony, cacoepy, acute note, high note, soprano, treble, tenor, alto, falsetto, penny trumpet, voce di testa, creaking, stridulous, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous, rough, gruff, grum, sepulchral, hollow, sharp, high, acute, shrill, trumpet-toned, piercing, ear-piercing, high-pitched, high-toned, cracked, discordant, cacophonous.