transferred. Having a hoarse voice or sound. Of inanimate things. (Chiefly poetic.)

That talks excessively or noisily, or makes a harsh discordant sound; = jangling, adj.

Harsh; fierce.

Hoarse, raucous. Also rauk-voiced adj.

Of a sound: harsh, grating, raucous; (of a person's voice) hoarse, croaky; (of the throat, etc.) producing such a sound.

Harsh in sound, tone, or manner; acerbic, severe.

Of movement, noise, demeanour, etc.: wild, uncontrolled, unrestrained; rough, crude.

Of the voice: hoarse. Obsolete. rare.

‘Harsh, ungrateful to the ear’ (Jamieson). Scottish.

Repugnant or unpleasant to other bodily senses. Disagreeably rough to the ear; jarring, discordant.

Not tuneful; unmelodious, inharmonious, harsh-sounding.

Sounding with harsh or rough vibration; grating; hence, inharmonious, discordant, out of tune; grating upon the ear or (transferred) the feelings…

Abounding in jarring or jars.

transferred. Uttering harsh, rough, or angry sounds, like a dog's barking; harsh-sounding.

Harsh-sounding, discordant, dissonant. Also figurative. Now rare.

Noisy; clamorous; also transferred, jangling.

Of a sound, esp. a person's voice: hoarse, rough; loud and harsh.

Harsh to the senses, in sound or taste.

Noisy, harsh-sounding.

Thin, meagre. Now chiefly as a reminiscence of Milton's use, usually with the sense: Harsh, unmelodious.

That caterwauls.

Not melodious.

That jangles, in various senses of the verb.

Barking. Chiefly figurative.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Raucous.

Not yielding or producing harmonious sounds.

Not made melodious.

Not melodic.

Hoarse, husky; raucous.

Hoarse, harsh. Cf. rauk, adj.

Esp. of a sound: harsh, grating; scratchy. Cf. raspy, adj. 1.

Resembling or suggesting the motion of a saw or the sound of sawing; = serratile, adj. (Cf. sawing, adj. 2.)

Harsh-sounding, inharmonious, discordant.

Not containing, composed of, or characterized by melody; not melodic. Cf. unmelodic, adj.