as in hoarse
formed or pronounced in the throat
guttural sounds He made a guttural grunt when he tried to lift the desk.
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Recent Examples of guttural
Thirteen minutes from the end of Wolverhampton Wanderers’ victory at Bournemouth, Andre raised his fists and roared a guttural celebration.
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Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
And what ensues is just that: a sloshing, pumping paroxysm of guttural suffering.
—Spin Contributor, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2025
Twigs’s vocals mutate between guttural and lithe, and her melodies tend to cut against the insistent grooves of the production.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Only a guttural scream in the song’s last 90 seconds can encapsulate the whirlwind of emotion from this cathartic banger.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guttural
Adjective
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As the speech came to an end, Booker’s voice was hoarse, but his resolve was unshaken.—
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By now, many economists are hoarse screaming that higher tariffs and a trade war will raise prices and hurt the U.S. economy.—
Adjective
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Voicing the bag is an older woman with a husky Tuscan timbre, which carries the whole way through its lifecycle onscreen.—
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My husky boy feet cemented into the concrete veranda.—
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In the clip, the animals tussle on a bed, Moose making playful growling noises as he and Peach play-fight, Moose using his mouth and Peach giving it all with his paws.—
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The world's complex environmental issues demand open minds, fresh perspectives, and less growling.—
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This was the puzzle: The Torch and the Treasure A Bridge Puzzle of Strategy, Speed... and Stolen Gold Five daring fantasy thieves—a nimble Elf, a sneaky Goblin, a fleet-footed Satyr, a gruff Dwarf, and a hulking Troll—have just pulled off the heist of the century.—
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Could this gruff old man playing mahjong in a nondescript hall be a curious gambler on the last boat up the Mekong, laughing in the face of Edward’s existential crisis?—
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“Guttural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guttural. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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