Synonyms of the word

mute

• adj. Not having the power of speech; dumb.
• adj. Silent; not making a sound.
• adj. Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt…
• adj. Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
• n. (phonetics, now historical) A stopped consonant; a stop.
• n. (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
• n. A person who does not have the power of speech.
• n. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
• n. (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for…
• v. (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
• v. (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
• v. (now rare) Of a bird: to defecate.
• n. The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
• v. (transitive) To cast off; to moult.

damp

• adj. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
• adj. (figuratively) despondent; dispirited, downcast.
• n. Moisture; humidity; dampness.
• n. (archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
• n. (archaic) Dejection or depression.
• n. (archaic or historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain,…
• v. (transitive) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to…

dampen

• v. (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
• v. (transitive) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
• v. (intransitive) To become damp; to deaden.

deaf-mute

• adj. (now offensive) Unable to hear or speak.
• n. (now offensive) A person who is unable to hear or speak.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

dumb

• adj. (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
• adj. (dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, especially of a person) extremely stupid.
• adj. (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
• adj. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
• v. (dated) To silence.
• v. (transitive) To make stupid.
• v. (transitive) To represent as stupid.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.

inarticulate

• adj. (of speech) not articulated in normal words.
• adj. speechless.
• adj. unable to speak with any clarity.
• adj. (biology) not having joints or other articulations.
• n. (zoology) An animal belonging to the subphylum Inarticulata.

muffle

• n. Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
• n. A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
• n. (slang, archaic) A boxing glove.
• n. A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace).
• n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often…
• v. (transitive) To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
• v. (transitive) To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
• v. (transitive, dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold;…

nonspeaking

• adj. Not speaking.

silent

• adj. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
• adj. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
• adj. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
• adj. (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
• adj. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
• adj. (technology) Without audio capability.
• adj. Hidden, unseen.
• adj. Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
• adj. Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
• adj. Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
• n. (uncountable) That which is silent; a time of silence.
• n. A silent movie.

soften

• v. (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
• v. (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
• v. (transitive) To make less harsh.
• v. (intransitive) To become soft or softer.

tongueless

• adj. Having no tongue.
• adj. Lacking speech; mute.
• adj. Making no sound; silent, speechless.
• adj. Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken.

unspoken

• adj. (sometimes postpositive) Not spoken; not said.
• adj. (sometimes postpositive) Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.
• v. past participle of unspeak.

walk-on

• n. A student athlete that wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship…
• n. An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
• n. Such a part in a play or film. Usually as walk-on role or walk-on part.

wordless

• adj. Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
• adj. Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate.