Muttered vs Mumble - What's the difference?
muttered | mumble |
(mutter)
A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
(in Indian restaurants) peas
To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 28
, author=Jamie Jackson
, title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal
, work=the Guardian
To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
* Dryden
To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
* Alexander Pope
(intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
* Shakespeare
* Otway
To chew something gently with closed lips.
A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
A low tone of voice.
As verbs the difference between muttered and mumble
is that muttered is (mutter) while mumble is (intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.As a noun mumble is
a quiet or unintelligible vocalization.muttered
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*mutter
English
Noun
(en noun)- The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter .
Derived terms
* mutter paneerVerb
(en verb)- You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
- The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
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- The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
- Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, / And mutter to himself.
- April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.
- Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.
Synonyms
* (sense, speak under one's breath) growl, grumble, mumble * (speak incoherently) babble, mumble, murmur, ramble, stutter * (make a low sound) growl, putter, rumble * See alsomumble
English
Verb
- Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
- Peace, you mumbling fool.
- A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety pegNoun
(en noun)- All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
- ''He spoke in a mumble .