Usually means: Rough, strained, or raspy voice.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hoarseness: Merriam-Webster
  2. hoarseness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hoarseness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hoarseness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hoarseness, hoarseness: Wordnik
  6. hoarseness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hoarseness: Wiktionary
  8. Hoarseness, hoarseness: Dictionary.com
  9. Hoarseness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Hoarseness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. hoarseness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. hoarseness: Rhymezone
  13. Hoarseness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. hoarseness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. hoarseness: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hoarseness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hoarseness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoarseness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hoarseness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hoarseness: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hoarseness: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hoarseness: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  9. hoarseness: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  10. hoarseness: Medical dictionary
  11. Hoarseness: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hoarseness)

▸ noun:  The quality of being hoarse, of having a dry harsh voice.

Similar:
gruffness, huskiness, harshness, throatiness, hypernasality, coarseness, hushedness, sonorosity, harrowingness, raspingness, more...

Opposite:
clear, unobstructed

Adjectives:
chronic, persistent, slight, severe, progressive, great, permanent, sudden, temporary, little, mild

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Similar:
gruffness, huskiness, harshness, throatiness, hypernasality, coarseness, hushedness, sonorosity, harrowingness, raspingness, more...

Opposite:
clear, unobstructed

Adjectives:
chronic, persistent, slight, severe, progressive, great, permanent, sudden, temporary, little, mild



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