mute
adjective
[ mjuːt ]
• refraining from speech or temporarily speechless.
• "Harry sat mute, his cheeks burning resentfully"
Similar:
silent,
speechless,
dumb,
unspeaking,
wordless,
voiceless,
tongue-tied,
at a loss for words,
tight-lipped,
close-mouthed,
taciturn,
uncommunicative,
mum,
mumchance,
• (of a person) lacking the faculty of speech.
• (of a letter) not pronounced.
• "mute e is generally dropped before suffixes beginning with a vowel"
mute
noun
• a person lacking the faculty of speech.
• a clamp placed over the bridge of a stringed instrument to deaden the resonance without affecting the vibration of the strings.
• a device on a television, telephone, or other appliance that temporarily turns off the sound.
mute
verb
• deaden, muffle, or soften the sound of.
• "her footsteps were muted by the thick carpet"
Similar:
deaden,
muffle,
mask,
dull,
dampen,
damp down,
soften,
silence,
stifle,
smother,
suppress,
lower,
reduce,
diminish,
decrease,
quieten,
quiet,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French muet, diminutive of mu, from Latin mutus .
mute
noun
• a pack of hounds.
• "the abbot had a mute of hounds"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman mut, mute, moute ‘pack of hounds trained for hunting’, from Latin movere ‘to move’.
