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mute

Entry Word:: mute
Function:: adjective

Text: 1 unable to speak<the child is both deaf and mute because her hearing was lost at birth>Synonymsinarticulate, speechless, voicelessRelated Wordstongue-tied; incoherent, incomprehensible; closemouthed, laconic, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative; mum, nonspeaking, quiet, silent, wordlessNear Antonymscommunicative, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocal; expatiating, speaking out, speaking up; articulating, speaking, talking; articulate, eloquent, fluent, voluble 2 deliberately refraining from speech<remained mute no matter how much we pleaded for an answer>— see silent 1

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