mute🔊

Not having the power of speech; dumb.

Silent; not making a sound.

Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.

Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.

(obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop.

(theatre) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. (19th c.)

A person who does not have the power of speech.

A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.

(music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.

An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.

A mute swan.

To silence, to make quiet.

To turn off the sound of.

(rare) Of a bird: to defecate.

The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

To cast off; to moult.