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guttural
[ guht-er-uhl ]
adjective
- of or relating to the throat.
- harsh; throaty.
- Phonetics. pertaining to or characterized by a sound articulated in the back of the mouth, as the non-English velar fricative sound [kh].
noun
- a guttural sound.
guttural
/ ˈɡʌtərəl /
adjective
- anatomy of or relating to the throat
- phonetics pronounced in the throat or the back of the mouth; velar or uvular
- raucous
noun
- phonetics a guttural consonant
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Derived Forms
- ˈgutturally, adverb
- ˈgutturalness, noun
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Other Words From
- guttur·al·ly adverb
- guttur·al·ness guttur·ali·ty guttur·al·ism noun
- non·guttur·al adjective
- non·guttur·al·ly adverb
- non·guttur·al·ness noun
- un·guttur·al adjective
- un·guttur·al·ly adverb
- un·guttur·al·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of guttural1
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Example Sentences
His voice would morph from a melodic baritone to a deep, guttural snarl, grinding notes to a pulp.
She even changed the way she spoke; as a little kid, she spoke like her parents, with guttural hets and ayins.
She lets out a deep, guttural laugh, the kind that sends her into a body-shaking cough away from the phone.
Queen Mary is given a heavy guttural German accent; it actually was barely perceptible (as recordings of her voice prove).
Sobs wracked my body, and I heard a guttural cry like a wild animal come from somewhere deep within me.
He went up a few steps, and looked over the upper deck; then he called out some guttural words.
"Young man," he addresses me in the artificial guttural voice he affects on solemn occasions.
“Let our white brother come close,” called a deep guttural voice.
Ah Sing entered behind them, pointed at Peter Gross, and issued a harsh, guttural command.
With an alphabet of thirty-nine letters, but it is harsh and guttural.
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