Definition for Mute:

• a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument

Synonyms for Mute:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • mute,
  • tongueless,
  • wordless.
  •aphonic (adjective)
  • most unarticulate,
  • un articulate,
  • un-articulate,
  • more unarticulate,
  • unarticulate.
  •dumb (adjective)
  • taciturn,
  • at a loss for words,
  • speechless,
  • mum.
  •hollow (adjective)
  • more toneless,
  • more vibrating,
  • most muted,
  • most vibrating,
  • most rumbling,
  • more echoing,
  • more clangorous,
  • most sounding,
  • more rumbling,
  • re-sounding,
  • most toneless,
  • more muted,
  • most clangorous,
  • most reverberant,
  • ghostly,
  • more sounding,
  • most echoing,
  • re sounding,
  • more reverberant.
  •quiet (adjective)
  • noiseless,
  • whist,
  • Quieter,
  • not saying boo,
  • could hear a pin drop,
  • Inobtrusive,
  • quietest.
  •silent (adjective)
  • Husher,
  • inaudible,
  • Silentious,
  • iced,
  • tight-lipped,
  • still,
  • Inconversable,
  • unheard,
  • dummied up,
  • Lulled,
  • closed up,
  • struck dumb,
  • soundless,
  • hushed.
  •speechless (adjective)
  • most amazed,
  • most astounded,
  • un flappable,
  • more astounded,
  • more amazed.
  •taciturn (adjective)
  • tightlipped,
  • uncommunicable,
  • unforthcoming,
  • incommunicative,
  • anti-social,
  • Incommunicable,
  • dried-up,
  • unexpressive.
  •tight-lipped (adjective)
  • tight lipped.
  •tongue-tied (adjective)
  • most garbled,
  • tongue tied,
  • more garbled,
  • tonguetied.
  •unable to speak (adjective)
  • unexpressed,
  • silenced,
  • unsounded,
  • aphasic,
  • aphasiac,
  • unpronounced.
  •uncommunicable (adjective)
  • un-communicable,
  • un communicable.
  •unintelligible (adjective)
  • incoherent.
  •unspoken (adjective)
  • Intimated,
  • unstated,
  • Invoiced.
  •voiceless (adjective)
  • surdest,
  • surder.

• n.

  •
  • bewildered,
  • articulation,
  • blast,
  • baton,
  • blast away,
  • atmospherics,
  • beat out,
  • accompany,
  • back,
  • bang out,
  • surprised,
  • arrange.
  •
  • aspirate,
  • words,
  • consonant,
  • aspiration,
  • closed syllable,
  • close vowel,
  • bilabial,
  • affricate,
  • alveolar,
  • assonance.
  •
  • bridge,
  • hammer,
  • fret,
  • catgut,
  • key,
  • head,
  • drumstick,
  • bellows,
  • bow,
  • damper.
  •
  • reduce,
  • shrivel,
  • subside.
  •
  • block out,
  • quieten,
  • cut out.
  •
  • quiescent,
  • quiet as a mouse,
  • you could hear a pin drop.
  •bit player (noun)
  • spearcarriers,
  • supporting actresses,
  • spear carriers,
  • spearcarrier,
  • supporting actors,
  • super-numerary,
  • spear-carriers,
  • super numerary.
  •damp (noun)
  • damp.
  •deaf-and-dumb person (noun)
  • deaf-and-dumb person.
  •deaf-mute (noun)
  • deaf-mute.
  •dull (noun)
  • dull.
  •tone down (noun)
  • tone down.
  •walk-on (noun)
  • walk-on.

• v.

  •dampen (verb)
  • de pressed,
  • dis-may,
  • dis-mays,
  • de press,
  • dis-courage,
  • dis may,
  • re-strains,
  • de-pressing,
  • dis maying,
  • dis mays,
  • dis-mayed,
  • re strains,
  • de pressing,
  • de presses,
  • dis mayed,
  • re-strain,
  • dis-maying,
  • de-presses,
  • de-pressed,
  • de-press,
  • dis courage,
  • dis courages,
  • re-straining,
  • dis-courages,
  • re straining,
  • re strain.
  •deaden (verb)
  • de-sensitized,
  • be numbing,
  • re presses,
  • un nerves,
  • de vitalizing,
  • puts out order,
  • de-vitalizes,
  • de-vitalized,
  • de-sensitizes,
  • put out order,
  • de-stroy,
  • de sensitize,
  • in capacitating,
  • puts out of order,
  • de sensitizes,
  • de stroying,
  • de-stroyed,
  • be numbs,
  • in capacitate,
  • re press,
  • un nerving,
  • de stroy,
  • de vitalizes,
  • de-sensitize,
  • re duce,
  • de stroyed,
  • re-pressing,
  • puts sleep,
  • un-nerving,
  • re duces,
  • in capacitated,
  • be-numbing,
  • in capacitates,
  • in-capacitating,
  • in-capacitates,
  • un nerve,
  • be-numb,
  • be-numbed,
  • re-presses,
  • Etherized,
  • koing,
  • ko'ing,
  • re-duce,
  • lays out,
  • de-aden,
  • Etherizing,
  • putting out order,
  • de-adens,
  • be numb,
  • un-nerves,
  • re-duces,
  • de aden,
  • de-sensitizing,
  • de-stroying,
  • un-nerve,
  • de-vitalize,
  • re pressing,
  • de sensitized,
  • be numbed,
  • in-capacitate,
  • ko'd,
  • re pressed,
  • de vitalized,
  • de stroys,
  • un nerved,
  • etherizes,
  • in-capacitated,
  • de sensitizing,
  • be-numbs,
  • de adens,
  • de vitalize,
  • putting sleep,
  • put sleep,
  • de-vitalizing,
  • KOD,
  • putting out of order,
  • de-stroys.
  •debrief (verb)
  • held tongue,
  • puts the lid on,
  • dummies up,
  • de briefs,
  • de-briefs,
  • hold ones tongue,
  • held one tongue,
  • said nothing,
  • sate on,
  • de-briefing,
  • sat on,
  • says nothing,
  • holding ones tongue,
  • holding tongue,
  • hold one tongue,
  • holding one tongue,
  • holds tongue,
  • puts lid on,
  • held ones tongue,
  • softpedal,
  • holding one's tongue,
  • putting the lid on,
  • de briefing,
  • de-brief,
  • de briefed,
  • held one's tongue,
  • de-briefed,
  • dummying up,
  • holds ones tongue,
  • sits on,
  • holds one's tongue,
  • holds one tongue,
  • putting lid on,
  • de brief.
  •play down (verb)
  • making little of,
  • making light of,
  • under-rated,
  • made little of,
  • under rated,
  • under play,
  • under plays,
  • under-playing,
  • makes light of,
  • be-little,
  • under rates,
  • under-rating,
  • be-littles,
  • under playing,
  • under-rate,
  • under-rates,
  • under-played,
  • be littles,
  • under-play,
  • glossing over,
  • under rate,
  • makes little of,
  • under played,
  • de emphasize,
  • under rating,
  • glosses over,
  • under-plays.
  •shade (verb)
  • clouded up,
  • inumbrates,
  • wert overcast,
  • clouds over,
  • art overcast,
  • casts shadow,
  • casting shadow,
  • clouds up,
  • wast overcast,
  • umbraging,
  • over shadowed,
  • casts a shadow,
  • cast shadow,
  • umbraged,
  • am overcast,
  • over shadowing,
  • over shadows,
  • is overcast,
  • being overcast,
  • are overcast,
  • over-shadowing,
  • casting a shadow,
  • was overcast,
  • over shadow,
  • inumbrated,
  • clouding over,
  • inumbrating,
  • were overcast,
  • over-shadows.
  •silence (verb)
  • shush,
  • lull.
  •tame (verb)
  • brings heel,
  • bringing to heel,
  • sub jugate,
  • breaks the spirit,
  • domiciliates,
  • brings to heel,
  • brought heel,
  • housetrained,
  • bring heel,
  • brake the spirit,
  • house train,
  • house-training,
  • break spirit,
  • broke the spirit,
  • housetrains,
  • house training,
  • house-trains,
  • brake spirit,
  • house trains,
  • breaks spirit,
  • brought to heel,
  • bringing heel,
  • broke spirit,
  • breaking spirit,
  • house trained,
  • breaking the spirit,
  • housetraining.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lessen,
  • neuter,
  • emasculate,
  • chip away.
  •
  • undercut,
  • undermine,
  • wane,
  • sulk,
  • erode.
  •
  • dilute.
  •
  • qualify,
  • drown.
  •
  • shake.
  •
  • subdue.
  •
  • temper.
  •
  • cut.
  •play down
  • underplayed,
  • deemphasize,
  • gloss over,
  • underplay,
  • make light of,
  • made light of,
  • underplaying,
  • glossed over,
  • underplays,
  • make little of,
  • be little.
  •quieten
  • quietened.
  •shade
  • shutter,
  • cloud up,
  • graying,
  • Inumbrate,
  • be overcast,
  • grayed,
  • GRAYS,
  • shaded,
  • shuttering,
  • shuttered,
  • clouded over,
  • cast a shadow,
  • clouding up,
  • cloud over.
  •silence
  • Clammed,
  • choking off,
  • overawe,
  • cool it,
  • keep down,
  • hush one's mouth,
  • pipe down,
  • closes up,
  • decrease the volume,
  • drying up,
  • closing up,
  • decrease volume,
  • keep it down,
  • overawes,
  • Clamming,
  • Overawing,
  • choked off,
  • quieted down,
  • strike dumb,
  • dumbed,
  • tongue tie,
  • tongue-tie,
  • close up,
  • debrief,
  • clam up,
  • quiet down,
  • dry up,
  • overawed,
  • dumbing,
  • dried up,
  • kept down,
  • dumbs,
  • clamming up,
  • choke off.

Paraphrases for Mute:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    muted.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Neutralizing, inoperative, dummy.
  • Proper noun, singular
    silence.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    silence.
  • Verb, base form
    muzzle.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    dumb, tongue-tied, speechless, voiceless.
  • Verb, base form
    silence.

Antonyms for Mute:

• adj.

  • unable to speak
    vocal, articulate.
  • Other antonyms:
    glib, unreserved, communicative, expansive, smooth-tongued, voluble, facile, speaking, outspoken, well-spoken, talking.

• v.

  • muffle, tone down sound
    liberate, voice, free, let go, strengthen, speak, increase, raise.

Mute Sentence Examples:

• He paid no attention to her mute reproach.

• But the high stone walls stood dark and mute as his own despair.

Homophones for Mute:

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Hypernym for Mute:

• n.

  • artifact
    sourdine, sordino.

Hyponym for Mute:

• n.

  • artifact
    acoustic device.