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gutbucket

9.9

Music that sounds rough and full of strong feeling

adjective
/ˈɡʌtˌbʌkɪt/

Archaic

: crudo

Fans love the gutbucket sound because it feels honest and full of energy.

Examples

Her gutbucket singing style set her apart from more polished performers.
The band played a gutbucket version of the classic blues song that thrilled the crowd.
I love that gutbucket sound from the band!
His music has a very gutbucket feel to it.
The band played a gutbucket version of the classic blues song that thrilled the crowd.
Fans love the gutbucket sound because it feels honest and full of energy.
Her gutbucket singing style set her apart from more polished performers.

Synonyms

lyrical

vsgutbucket

31 4.9

Expressing deep personal feeling like a song

is grittier and rawer rather than smooth or polished

appassionato

vsgutbucket

Specialized

8.6

Played or sung with strong feeling, especially in music

is similar but rougher and unrefined in tone

appassionata

vsgutbucket

Specialized

9.1

Played or sung with strong, deep feeling in music

is similar but rougher and less polished in sound

espressivo

vsgutbucket

Specialized

8.4

To play with feeling to show the music's emotion

leans more toward raw, unpolished emotional force

souled

vsgutbucket

7.7

Showing deep feeling in a song or performance

focuses more on roughness and unrefined emotional sound

Antonyms

refined

Formal

4 4.1

Showing elegant, polite manners and good taste

How Raw

gutbucket

Archaic

9.9

earthy

7 4.1

refined

1 5.4

Surface Forms

gutbucket positive

Morphology

gutbucket = gut + bucket (opaque) = gut + bucket

The word is structurally a compound of familiar parts, but its meaning 'raw, unrefined, and full of strong emotion' is not predictable from the literal meanings of 'gut' and 'bucket'.

Etymology

Gutbucket probably comes from the simple words gut and bucket; gut can mean the stomach or a deep, raw feeling and bucket suggests something plain or rough. A helpful way to remember it is to think of music that comes from the 'gut'—deep, raw and full of feeling—so gutbucket describes that unpolished, emotional sound.