Adjective mute has 3 senses
- mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless - expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "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
Antonym: articulate (indirect, via inarticulate)
- mute, tongueless - lacking power of speech
Antonym: speaking (indirect, via nonspeaking)
- dumb, mute, silent - unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
Antonym: articulate (indirect, via inarticulate)
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Noun mute has 2 senses
- mute, deaf-mute, deaf-and-dumb person - a deaf person who is unable to speak
--1 is a kind of deaf person
--1 has particulars: dummy, silent person
- mute - a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
--2 is a kind of acoustic device
--2 has particulars: sourdine, sordino
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Verb mute has 1 sense
- muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down - deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
--1 is one way to soften
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