What does guttural mean?
Guttural means Sounding harsh and throaty..
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/ˈɡʌtəɹəl/ · adjective
Sounding harsh and throaty..
Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.
The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection
He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.
He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals.
"Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.
Use guttural when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Guttural means Sounding harsh and throaty..
Common synonyms include cacophonous, cacophonic, croaky, croaking.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Arabic is considered a very guttural language, with many harsh consonants.
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