Synonyms of the word mumble


MUMBLECHEW - GUM - JAW - MANDUCATE - MASTICATE - MAUNDER - MOUTH - MUSSITATE - MUTTER - SPEAK - TALK - UTTER - UTTERANCE - VERBALISE - VERBALIZE - VOCALIZATION

mumble

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
  • v. To chew something gently with closed lips.
  • n. A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
  • n. A low tone of voice.

chew

  • v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break…
  • v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
  • v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
  • n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
  • n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
  • n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
  • n. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

gum

  • n. (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
  • v. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
  • v. (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
  • n. (chiefly uncountable) Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.
  • n. (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.
  • n. (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
  • n. (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
  • n. (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
  • n. (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
  • n. (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
  • n. (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
  • n. A gum tree.
  • v. (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
  • v. To stiffen with glue or gum.
  • v. (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

jaw

  • n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
  • n. The part of the face below the mouth.
  • n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
  • n. A notch or opening.
  • n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
  • n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
  • n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
  • n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
  • n. (slang) Axle guard.
  • n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
  • v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
  • v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
  • v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
  • adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

manducate

  • v. (literary) to chew; to masticate.
  • v. (literary) to eat.

masticate

  • v. (transitive) To chew (food).
  • v. (transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp.

maunder

  • v. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
  • v. To wander or walk aimlessly.
  • n. (obsolete) A beggar.

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

mussitate

  • v. To talk indistinctly; to mutter.

mutter

  • n. A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
  • v. To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips…
  • v. To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
  • v. To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
  • n. (Indian cuisine) Peas.

speak

  • v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
  • v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  • v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
  • v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
  • v. (transitive) To utter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
  • v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
  • n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
  • n. Speach, conversation.
  • n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

  • n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  • n. A lecture.
  • n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  • n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
  • n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  • n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
  • v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

utterance

  • n. An act of uttering.
  • n. Something spoken.
  • n. The ability to speak.
  • n. Manner of speaking.
  • n. (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
  • n. (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
  • n. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

verbalise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

  • v. To speak or to use words to express.
  • v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

vocalization

  • n. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.
  • n. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation.
  • n. The use of speech to express an idea.
  • n. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.
  • n. (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are…
  • n. (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds…

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