Synonyms and Antonyms of raspy
1
easily irritated or annoyed
- overwork tends to make him raspy
choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, stuffy, testy, waspish
bearish, bilious, cantankerous, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, off-color (or off-colored), ornery, querulous, snarly, surly
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, disputatious, fractious, fretful, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent
huffy, pouty, sensitive, short, sulky, sullen, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy
hot-blooded, passionate
affable, companionable, cordial, extroverted (also extraverted), friendly, genial, gregarious, outgoing, sociable
agreeable, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered, sweet, well-disposed
carefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, relaxed
forbearing, long-suffering, obliging, patient, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining, understanding
2
harsh and dry in sound
- the dying man spoke in a barely audible, raspy voice
coarse, croaking, croaky, grating, gravel, gravelly, gruff, hoarse, husky, rasping, rusty, scratchy, throaty
growling, growly, guttural
abrasive, cacophonous, discordant, grinding, jarring, rough, scraping, scratching
cawing, raucous, screeching, squawking, strident
choked, cracked, strained, strangled
dissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical
gentle, gliding, golden, liquid, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, soothing, sweet, tender
satiny, silken, smooth, soft, velvety
euphonious, lyric, lyrical, melodic, melodious, musical
