raucously

1. 1.

   with a raucous sound

   “his voice rang raucously”
2. 2.

   in a rowdy manner

   “the crowd got drunk and started to behave rowdily”

   Synonymsrowdily

Questions about raucously

What does raucously mean?

raucously means "with a raucous sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in raucously?

raucously has 3 syllables: rau-cou-sly. The stress falls on "rau".

What is another word for raucously?

Close synonyms include rowdily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is raucously a common word?

raucously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.