mute

Plural: mutes

Noun

• a deaf person who is unable to speak
• a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
• A stopped consonant; a stop.
• An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
• A person who does not have the power of speech.
• A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
• An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
• An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
• A mute swan.
• The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

Verb

Verb Forms: muted, muting, mutes

• To deaden, soften, or suppress a sound.
• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
• To silence, to make quiet.
• To turn off the sound of.
• Of a bird: to defecate.
• To cast off; to moult.

Adjective Satellite

• expressed without speech; ; ; - Emily Dickinson; ; ; - Thomas Wolfe
  • "a mute appeal"
• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Adj

• Not having the power of speech; dumb.
• Silent; not making a sound.
• Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
• Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.

Adjective

• Silent; refraining from speech or sound.

Examples

• He tried to mute his frustration when his opponent played a seven-letter word.
• Please mute the music while I make a call.
• The opponent remained mute, revealing nothing about their next Scrabble move.

Synonyms

damp, dampen, deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute, dull, dumb, muffle, silent, tone down, tongueless, unspoken, wordless, aphonic, aphonous, dumb as a post, mumchance, mute, occlusive, plosive, stop, unspeaking, voiceless

Antonyms

audible, nonmute, talkative, unmute, vocal, voiced

Related Words

dumb, inarticulate, inaudible, make silent, semimute, silence, MUTELY, MUTEDLY

Anagrams of mute