How to pronounce“mute”in English
IPA/mjut/
Syllablesmute
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adjective
Not having the power of speech; dumb.
“Thus, while the mute Creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their Earthy Mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected Eyes / Beholds his own hereditary Skies. / From ſuch rude Principles our Form began; / And Earth was Metamorphos'd into Man.”
adjective
Silent; not making a sound.
“He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire ſtood mute, / And ſilence was in Heav’n: […]”
noun
An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
“As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:”