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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAU'COUS, a. Hoarse; harsh. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: raucous, strident]
2: disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers" [syn: raucous, rowdy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin raucus hoarse; akin to Latin ravis hoarseness Date: 1769 1. disagreeably harsh or strident ; hoarse <raucous voices> 2. boisterously disorderly <a…raucous frontier town — Truman Capote> Synonyms: see loud • raucously adverb • raucousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. harsh-sounding, loud and hoarse. Derivatives: raucously adv. raucousness n. Etymology: L raucus

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Raucous Rau"cous, a. [L. raucus.] Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. ``His voice slightly raucous.'' --Aytoun. -- Rau"cous*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A raucous sound is loud, harsh, and rather unpleasant. They heard a bottle being smashed, then more raucous laughter. ADJ: usu ADJ n • raucously They laughed together raucously. ADV: usu ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Hoarse, husky, rough, harsh.

Moby Thesaurus

absonant, atonal, boisterous, brassy, brazen, brusque, cacophonous, choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, diaphonic, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, disorderly, dissonant, dry, ear-splitting, flat, grating, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, immelodious, inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, loud, metallic, musicless, noisy, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, piercing, ragged, rasping, raucid, rough, roupy, rowdy, rowdyish, rude, rumbustious, scratching, scratchy, sharp, shrill, sour, squawking, squawky, stertorous, strangled, strident, stridulous, termagant, thick, throaty, tinny, tumultuous, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, unruly, untunable, untuned, untuneful