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caterwauling
adjective as in harsh
Strong match
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- cacophonous
- clashing
- cracked
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- discordant
- dissonant
- disturbing
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- guttural
- hoarse
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- raucous
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- sour
- stridulous
- tuneless
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in scratchy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- bitter
- bleak
- cacophonous
- clashing
- coarse
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- dissonant
- disturbing
- dry
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- grim
- guttural
- hard
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- rigid
- rough
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- severe
- sharp
- sour
- squawky
- strident
- stridulous
- tuneless
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in squawky
noun as in noise
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
On The View, while she leads the show, she sat apart from the more hysterical caterwauling and general idiocy around her.
Another shovels strings of rubber bands into his mouth like spaghetti, provoking more caterwauling from the judges.
This is just too much, all this babyish caterwauling from Mitch McConnell.
To be sure, there was plenty of Democratic caterwauling about the Reagan budget.
Deaf Old Gentleman (seated by piano, talking to pretty girl)—I'd rather listen to you than hear this caterwauling.
From inside came the rare sound of water splashing, mixed with a wheezing, off-key caterwauling.
The night was still, save for a love-sick panther somewhere on the mountain, a-caterwauling under the June stars.
Another South American breed is said to be free from the hideous “caterwauling” of the ordinary cat.
The voices are filled with night—black hollow gloomy night or else they are as strident as the caterwauling of a Tom Cat.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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