Muttered vs Uttered - What's the difference?
muttered | uttered |
(mutter)
A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
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To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
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To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
* Dryden
To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
* Alexander Pope
(utter)
* Chapman
* Spenser
* Milton
(obsolete) Outward.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
* Atterbury
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To say
To use the voice
To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved
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To make (a noise)
(legal) To put counterfeit money, etc. , into circulation
(label) Further out; further away, outside.
*, Bk.VII, Ch.v:
*:So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir —‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’
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As verbs the difference between muttered and uttered
is that muttered is (mutter) while uttered is (utter).muttered
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*mutter
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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 alsouttered
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*utter
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; compare (outer).Adjective
(-)- By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.
- As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.
- Through utter and through middle darkness borne.
- Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.
- So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .
- utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness
- They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.
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Synonyms
* see alsoDerived terms
* utterly * utterness * uttermostEtymology 2
Partly from (out) (adverb/verb), partly from (etyl) uteren.Verb
(en verb)- Don't you utter another word!
- Sally uttered a sigh of relief.
- The dog uttered a growling bark.
- Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.
- Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.
