What does mute mean?
Mute means Not having the power of speech; dumb..
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/mjuːt/ · 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.
[…] The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou mutest among all the mute!
He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire ſtood mute, / And ſilence was in Heav’n: […]
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:
The girl left, and presently returned, followed by two male mutes, to whom the Queen made another sign.
He asked about the undertaking business, and how many mutes went down with Lady Estrich’s remains […]
The little box was eventually carried in one hand by the leading mute, while his colleague, with a finger placed on the lid, to prevent it from swaying, walked to one side and a little to the rear.
Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’
Use mute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mute means Not having the power of speech; dumb..
Common synonyms include aphonic, aphonous, dumb, dumb as a post.
Possible antonyms include audible, nonmute, talkative, vocal.
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.
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