mute

Meanings

• a deaf person who is unable to speak
• a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
• expressed without speech; ; ; - Emily Dickinson; ; ; - Thomas Wolfe
  • "a mute appeal"
• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Synonyms

damp, dampen, deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute, dull, dumb, muffle, silent, tone down, tongueless, unspoken, wordless