howtodescribevoice.doc

Words used to describe someones voice adenoidal adjective if someone’s voice is adenoidal, some of the sound seems to come through their nose appealing adjective an appealing look, voice etc shows that you want help, approval, or agreement breathy adjective with loud breathing noises brittle adjective if you speak in a brittle voice, you sound as if you are about to cry croaky adjective if someone’s voice sounds croaky, they speak in a low rough voice that sounds as if they have a sore throat dead adjective if someone’s eyes are dead, or if their voice is dead, they feel or show no emotion disembodied adjective a disembodied voice comes from someone who you cannot see flat adjective spoken in a voice that does not go up and down. This word is often used for describing the speech of people from a particular region. fruity adjective a fruity voice or laugh is deep and strong in a pleasant way grating adjective a grating voice, laugh, or sound is unpleasant and annoying gravelly adjective a gravelly voice sounds low and rough gruff adjective a gruff voice has a rough low sound guttural adjective a guttural sound is deep and made at the back of your throat high-pitched adjective a high-pitched voice or sound is very high hoarse adjective someone who is hoarse or has a hoarse voice speaks in a low rough voice, usually because their throat is sore honeyed adjective honeyed words or a honeyed voice sound very nice but you cannot trust the person who is speaking husky adjective a husky voice is deep and sounds hoarse (=as if you have a sore throat), often in an attractive way low adjective a low voice or sound is quiet and difficult to hear low adjective used for describing a deep voice or a sound that has a long wavelength low adverb in a deep voice, or with a deep sound matter-of-fact adjective used about someone’s behaviour or voice modulated adjective a modulated voice is controlled and pleasant to listen to monotonous adjective a monotonous sound