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Meaning mute meaning

What does mute mean?
Definitions in simple English

mute Adjective

— Being mute is not talking or making a sound; silent. — A person who is mute cannot speak.

mute Noun

— A person who cannot talk.

mute

— adjective (= tongueless, unspoken, wordless) expressed without speech a mute appeal a silent curse best grief is tongueless — Emily Dickinson the words stopped at her lips unsounded unspoken grief choking exasperation and wordless shame — Thomas Wolfe — noun a deaf person who is unable to speak — noun a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument — adjective (= dumb) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness — verb (= muffle) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

Synonyms mute synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mute?

mute English » English

dumb silent speechless unable to speak muffle quiet deaf voiceless still deaf-mute dampen wordless tongueless noiseless deaden damper damp unspoken tacit silence dull deaf-and-dumb person tranquil tone down soundless reduce not make a sound allay walk-on valve unvoiced untroubled unlettered uncommunicative tongue-tied stupid person strike dumb stilly stifle stamp down speech-impaired person sourdine sordine soft slake slack silly silencing of noise silencing shout down

Topics mute topics

What do people use mute to talk about?
Person Healthy Disabled

Mute
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Say nothing

Conjugation mute conjugation

How do you conjugate mute?

mute · verb

Examples mute examples

How do I use mute in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Deaf-mute people talk using sign language.
Are you deaf or mute?
Danger makes mute.
She was blind, deaf, and mute.
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute.
She's deaf and mute, and is getting blind, too.
Tom went mute.
I'm deaf and mute while I'm eating.
Tom is deaf and mute.
He's blind, deaf and mute.

Movie subtitles

Is he a deaf mute, or only dumb?
Well? - He'd make a delightful mute, my love.
I don't mean a regular mute to attend grown-up people, my dear, but only for children's practice.
Instead of making Carmela deaf, should have made her mute!
Put a mute in that thing.
He's a deaf-mute.
He has a strange obsession, this mute of mine.
Then there's Igor, deaf-mute, and Leon Averill, who does the wax work.
He can sit here mute and say not a word.
Unless you get hold of yourself, you'll be a mute, musically speaking.
Her Highness will have to be a mute.
A mute. isn't there any other way?
Speaking of which, could you play mute?
Mute?
But dead and mute.
Poor child, he's a mute.
He's a mute.
Yes, he's a really a mute.
I guess I'm playing with a heavy mute.
A pity that it is mute and blind and cannot tell us of our ancient dead. Of Moses on the mountain top. Of Miriam and Aaron.
Poor child, she's a mute.
And your prisoner? Still mute?
Yes. Mute as a grave.
If it swings, put a mute in your horn.
It's precisely because you're discreet, honest and you only have two patients, one of which is a mute, that we thought of you in the.
To not be a mute, don't shout.
We also had an uncle, a deaf-mute.
The fatal vegetables had been picked by our deaf-mute. and that night, the house contained 11 corpses.
Mute.
Maybe he's mute.
Maybe it was a mute.
Knock it off, buddy. Put a mute in that thing.
Guys, what a lot of money from a deaf-mute. and nothing for me, Bella Bella!
Nicole', do you favour these over the mute?
The servants were mute.
Only a deaf and mute guy like me was left.
You are not by any chance a mute, are you?
Like a mute talking to a deaf.

News and current affairs

Over and over again, Turkey being the latest example, the IMF is mute for too long.
Many Pakistanis, disillusioned with Pakistan's political class, remained mute, thinking that he might deliver.
Does this mean that the world's two great central banks should not only be passive, but mute? No, silence is a bad idea.
Trees stand mute despite our betrayal.
The economic impact of politics in the US, while important, will be less dynamic: absent a more cooperative Congress, politics will mute policy responses rather than fuel greater activism.
Mute suffering is fine as a moral principle, but only Gandhi could use it to bring about meaningful change.
Booming trade in the region has failed to mute or moderate territorial and other disputes; on the contrary, it has only sharpened regional geopolitics and unleashed high-stakes brinkmanship.
Does this mean that the world's two great central banks should not only be passive, but mute?

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