- mumbling, muttering - speaking low and indistinctly; "a mumbling parson stood beside the dying man"; "muttering crowds of onlookers"
Antonyms: nonspeaking, walk-on (indirect, via speaking)
- mumbling - indistinct enunciation
--1 is a kind of enunciation, diction
Derived form: verb mumble1 - mumbling, gumming - ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
--2 is a kind of chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
Derived form: verb mumble2
- mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate - talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
--1 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun mumbler1, noun mumbling1
Sam and Sue mumble
They mumble that there was a traffic accident
- mumble, gum - grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"
--2 is one way to chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun mumbling2
Somebody ----s something