guttural
Harsh and throaty
Guttural describes sounds produced in or seeming to come from the throat—harsh, rasping, or growling.
Languages with many back-of-throat consonants are often called guttural: Arabic and Hebrew have guttural sounds English lacks.
The word frequently carries negative connotations of roughness or primitiveness: He let out a guttural cry.
A guttural voice sounds deep and throaty.
Containing small stones
- hoarseRough in voice
- raspyRough and grating
- croakyRough-sounding, like illness
- huskyRough-voiced or stocky
growly · gruff · throaty · deep · rough · scratchy · baritone · bassy
Of the throat's pendant
- fricativeConsonant with audible friction
- consonantIn agreement with
- voicedExpressed in speech
- voicelessHaving no voice
plosive · velar · aspirated · articulation · phoneme · allophone · nasal · phonology
Crossed bars or harsh
- jarringDisturbingly incongruous
- raucousLoud and disorderly
- stridentHarsh and piercing
- discordantLacking musical agreement
cacophonous · raspy · dissonant · grinding · scraping · rough · unpleasant · piercing
Regional language variety
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- speechOral communication ability
- intonationPitch variation in speech
- inflectionWord form alteration
articulation · cadence · prosody · phonology · timbre · vocalization · modulation · elocution
gravelly
Containing small stones
husky · growly · gruff · throaty · deep · rough · scratchy · baritone · bassy · rumbling
uvular
Of the throat's pendant
voiceless · plosive · velar · aspirated · articulation · phoneme · allophone · nasal · phonology · linguistics
grating
Crossed bars or harsh
discordant · cacophonous · raspy · dissonant · grinding · scraping · rough · unpleasant · piercing · clashing
dialect
Regional language variety
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- speechOral communication ability
- intonationPitch variation in speech
inflection · articulation · cadence · prosody · phonology · timbre · vocalization · modulation · elocution · enunciation
growling
Deep threatening vocalization
- snarlingVocalized hostile warning
- gruntingLow, throaty vocalization
- roaringMaking prolonged loud noise
howling · feral · animalistic · visceral · beastly · savage · instinctual · predatory · barbaric · primitive
- speechspeech, speaking, talk, diction, conversation
- loud criesscream, screech, shriek, yell, howl
- consonantsd, h, q, r, w
- bass soundsbass note, bass tone, bass drum, bass guitar, bass voice
- phoneticsphonemes, phoneme, vocal folds, consonants, vowels
gutturalmelodious
Agreeable in sound
dulcet · euphonious · mellifluous · smooth · mellow
- guttural soundsSounds made in throat