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rasping

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of rasping

harsh and dry in sound

a patient beset by a rasping cough from years of smoking

Synonyms of rasping

coarse, croaking, grating, gravel, gravelly, gruff, hoarse, husky, raspy, rusty, scratchy, throaty

Words Related to rasping

growling, growly, guttural

abrasive, cacophonous, discordant, grinding, jarring, rough, scraping, scratching

cawing, raucous, screeching, squawking, strident

choked, cracked, strained, strangled

dissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical

Near Antonyms of rasping

gentle, gliding, golden, liquid, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, soothing, sweet, tender

satiny, silken, smooth, soft, velvety

euphonious, lyric, lyrical, melodic, melodious, musical

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