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Guttural vs Ragged - What's the difference?

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Guttural is a related term of ragged.


As adjectives the difference between guttural and ragged

is that guttural is sounding harsh and throaty while ragged is rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.

As a noun guttural

is a harsh and throaty spoken sound.

As a verb ragged is

(rag).

guttural

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sounding harsh and throaty.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • (label) Articulated at the back of the mouth.
  • Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A harsh and throaty spoken sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Stanley Waterloo, title=The Wolf's Long Howl, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Frederic Stewart Isham, title=A Man and His Money, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals .}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs, title=Jungle Tales of Tarzan, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.}}

    ragged

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rag)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.
    • a ragged coat
    a ragged sail
  • Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
    • ragged rocks
  • Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
  • * (rfdate) .
    • A ragged noise of mirth.
  • Wearing tattered clothes.
    • a ragged fellow
  • Rough; shaggy; rugged.
  • * (rfdate), .
    • What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 19 , author=Paul fletcher , title=Blackpool 1-2 West Ham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Allardyce's side had led at the break through a Carlton Cole strike but after Thomas Ince - son of former Hammers midfielder Paul - levelled shortly after the restart, the match became increasingly stretched and ragged .}}

    Derived terms

    * ragged lady * raggedly * raggedness * ragged robin * ragged sailor * ragged school

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms