THROATY (throatier, throatiest)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: throatier    , throatiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does throaty mean? 

• THROATY (adjective)
  The adjective THROATY has 1 sense:

1. sounding as if pronounced low in the throat

  Familiarity information: THROATY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROATY (adjective)

Comparative: throatier   
Superlative: throatiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sounding as if pronounced low in the throat

Context example:

a rich throaty voice

Similar:

low; low-pitched (used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency)

Derivation:

throat (the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone)

 Context examples 

Then from out of the silence, imminent and threatening, there came once more that low, throaty croaking, far louder and closer than before.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cub reporter was an artist, and it was a large brush with which he laid on the local color—wild-eyed long-haired men, neurasthenic and degenerate types of men, voices shaken with passion, clenched fists raised on high, and all projected against a background of oaths, yells, and the throaty rumbling of angry men.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then, under this high-pitched, ringing sound there was another, more intermittent, a low, deep-chested laugh, a growling, throaty gurgle of merriment which formed a grotesque accompaniment to the shriek with which it was blended.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)