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muteadjective unable to speakthe child is both deaf and mute because her hearing was lost at birth inarticulate, speechless, voiceless tongue-tiedincoherent, incomprehensibleclosemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicativemum, nonspeaking, quiet, silent, wordless blabby, chatty, communicative, expansive, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocalexpatiating, speaking out, speaking uparticulating, speaking, talkingarticulate, eloquent, fluent, voluble deliberately refraining from speechremained mute no matter how much we pleaded for an answer dumb, mum, muted, silent, speechless, uncommunicative, wordless inarticulate, tongue-tiednonvocal, voicelessdumbstrucksulking, sulky, sullen communicative, speaking, talking articulate, eloquent, fluent, voluble, well-spokengabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talkyoutspoken, unreserved, vocalfacile, glib, silver-tongued, smooth-tongued a device on a musical instrument that deadens or softens its toneI was practicing my trumpet at three in the morning when the mute fell out, and I managed to wake everyone up muteverbto stop the noise or speech ofmuted the television while she was on the phone dumb, extinguish, hush, quell, quiet, quieten(chiefly British), settle, shush, shut up, silence, squelch, still agitate, stir to deaden the sound ofclosing the windows muted the traffic noise so we could get to sleep muffle, stifle insulate, soundproofpaddampen, mellow, soften, subdue, tone (down)bafflesmother unmuffle amplify, boost, deepen, enhance, heighten, increase, magnify, step up, strengthen in the 15th century |