raucous
/ˈrɔːkəs
/adjective
Making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise: raucous youths...
- Suddenly, Nicky began to laugh, a loud and raucous sound it was, almost making you feel ashamed to be next to him.
- They ended their set by standing on their amps and jumped off them while playing one loud raucous power chord.
- It's a big, bad, wonderful city - loud, raucous, and nasty, but it's also kind and dear.
Synonyms
harsh, strident, screeching, squawky, squawking, sharp, grating, discordant, dissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, jarring, brassy;
rough, rasping, husky, hoarse, scratchy;
noisy, loud, piercing, shrill, ear-splitting, penetrating, clamorous, cacophonous
rowdy, noisy, boisterous, roisterous, unruly, disorderly, wild
Derivatives
raucously
/ adverb ...- For local entertainment you would have to hire the raucously energetic rock group that rehearses in the village hall.
- You start laughing raucously, almost manically.
- Two waiters come running, but the girls are deep into battle now, laughing raucously as the entire restaurant turns to look.
raucousness
/ noun ...- Perhaps I haven't been in the right places at the right times, but there was none of the raucousness of Edinburgh on a Saturday night.
- There is an energy about her that dances erratically, a kind of life-enhancing raucousness that makes the onlooker feel just a bit more alive.
- Everyone sings the bits they know with gusto and extreme raucousness.
Origin
Mid 18th century: from Latin raucus 'hoarse' + -ous.
Rhymes
- split-brain
- split decision
- split end
- split hairs
- split-half
- split image
- split infinitive
- split-level
- split one's sides (also split a gut)
- split pea
- split-personality disorder
- split-phase
- split pin
- split-rail
- split ring
- split run
- split screen
- split second
- split shift
- split shot
- split stuff
- splitsville
- splitter
- split the difference
- split the ticket (or one's vote)