From the outside came a murmur of guttural voices, or the occasional sound of moccasined feet passing to and fro.
Source: tatoeba (11030261)
Guttural
//ˈɡʌtəɹəl//
Synonyms for "guttural" (173 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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2 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 19 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- կոկորդային adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Bulgarian
3 entries- гърлен adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
- гърлен adj (phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth)
- на гърлото adj (medicine, anatomy: of, relating to, or connected to the throat)
Catalan
1 entries- gutural adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Dutch
1 entries- keelklank noun (harsh and throaty spoken sound)
Esperanto
1 entries- guturala adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Finnish
4 entries- gutturaalinen adj (phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth)
- gutturaalinen adj (medicine, anatomy: of, relating to, or connected to the throat)
- kurkku adj (medicine, anatomy: of, relating to, or connected to the throat)
- käheä adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
French
1 entries- guttural adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
German
2 entries- guttural adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
- kehlig adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Greek
2 entries- λαρυγγόφωνος adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
- λαρυγγώδης adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Hebrew
1 entries- גְרוֹנִי adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Hungarian
2 entries- gutturális adj (phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth)
- torokhang noun (harsh and throaty spoken sound)
Ido
1 entries- guturala adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Italian
1 entries- gutturale adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Polish
3 entries- gardłowy adj (phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth)
- gardłowy adj (medicine, anatomy: of, relating to, or connected to the throat)
- nieartykułowany adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Portuguese
1 entries- gutural adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Romanian
1 entries- gutural adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Russian
2 entries- горлово́й adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
- горта́нный adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
Sanskrit
1 entries- कण्ठ्य adj (phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth)
Spanish
2 entries- gutural adj (sounding harsh and throaty)
- gutural adj (phonetics: articulated at the back of the mouth)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The monster had a guttural growl.
Source: tatoeba (11207873)
Ziri heard a guttural sound.
Source: tatoeba (11449496)
Lorenzo spoke in a deep guttural voice that was not his own.
Source: tatoeba (11709090)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.