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Showing words for MUTENESS using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Muteness

muteness, tenesmus

7 Letter Words for Muteness

mustees

6 Letter Words for Muteness

ensues, menses, mesnes, messet, meuses, musets, mustee, neumes, semens, sement, semsen, sensum, smeuse, sneest, steems, steens, stemes, sunset, temses, tenses, tenues, tmeses, umteen, unmeet, unmete, unsets, unteem, usenet

5 Letter Words for Muteness

emeus, enets, ensue, esnes, essen, estus, etens, meets, menes, mense, menus, meses, mesne, messe, metes, metus, meuse, meute, munts, muses, muset, musse, musts, mutes, neems, nests, netes, neume, neums, seems, semen, semes, sense, sensu, sente, sents, smees, smuse, smuts, snees, steem, steen, steme, stems, stens, stums, stuns, suent, suets, sumen, teems, teens, temes, temse, tenes, tense, tenue, tunes, umest, umset, unmet, unsee, unset, usent, utees

4 Letter Words for Muteness

emes, emeu, emus, enes, ense, eses, esne, esse, ests, eten, meet, mene, mens, ment, menu, mese, mess, mest, mete, mets, meus, muns, munt, muse, muss, must, mute, muts, neem, neet, nese, ness, nest, nete, nets, neum, neut, nuts, seem, seen, sees, seme, sene, sens, sent, sese, sets, smee, smut, snee, snum, stem, sten, stue, stum, stun, sues, suet, sums, sune, suns, sunt, teem, teen, tees, teme, tems, tene, tens, tsun, tues, tume, tums, tune, tuns, usee, uses, utes

3 Letter Words for Muteness

een, eme, ems, emu, ene, ens, ese, esm, ess, est, esu, mee, men, mes, met, meu, mss, mst, mtn, mts, mun, mus, mut, nee, net, num, nus, nut, see, sem, sen, set, sse, ssu, stm, sue, sum, sun, sus, tee, tem, ten, tes, tss, tue, tum, tun, ume, ums, uns, use, ust, ute, uts

Definitions for Muteness

[1] silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
[2] not emitting or having sound of any kind.
[3] incapable of speech; dumb.
[4] (of letters) silent; not pronounced.
[5] Law . (of a person who has been arraigned) making no plea or giving an irrelevant response when arraigned, or refusing to stand trial (used chiefly in the phrase to stand mute ).
[6] Fox Hunting . (of a hound) hunting a line without giving tongue or cry.
[7] Offensive . a person incapable of speech.
[8] an actor whose part is confined to dumb show.
[9] Law . a person who stands mute when arraigned.
[10] Also called sordino. a mechanical device of various shapes and materials for muffling the tone of a musical instrument.
[11] Phonetics . a stop.
[12] British Obsolete . a hired mourner at a funeral; a professional mourner.
[13] to deaden or muffle the sound of.
[14] to reduce the intensity of (a color) by the addition of another color.
[15] not giving out sound or speech; silent
[16] unable to speak; dumb
[17] unspoken or unexpressed mute dislike
[18] law (of a person arraigned on indictment) refusing to answer a charge
[19] phonetics another word for plosive
[20] (of a letter in a word) silent
[21] a person who is unable to speak
[22] law a person who refuses to plead when arraigned on indictment for an offence
[23] any of various devices used to soften the tone of stringed or brass instruments
[24] phonetics a plosive consonant; stop
[25] a silent letter
[26] an actor in a dumb show
[27] a hired mourner at a funeral
[28] to reduce the volume of (a musical instrument) by means of a mute, soft pedal, etc
[29] to subdue the strength of (a colour, tone, lighting, etc)
[30] (of birds) to discharge (faeces)
[31] birds' faeces

Words related to Muteness

mutepeace, quiet, reticence, stillness, lull, secrecy, blackout, calm, taciturnity, quietude, censorship, dumbness, quietness, hush, quiescence, death, sleep, quietus, sulk, noiselessness

Words nearby Muteness

mutemutato nomine, mutazila, mutazilite, mutch, mutchkin, mute, mute swan, muted, mutein, mutha, muti

Origin of Muteness

1325–75; < Latin mūtus dumb; replacing Middle English muet < Middle French, equivalent to Old French mu (< Latin mūtus ) + unexplained suffix -et; cf. -et

Words that may be confused with Muteness

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, mutemoot, mute

Other words from Muteness

mute·ly , adverb
mute·ness , noun

Word origin for Muteness

C15: from Old French meutir, variant of esmeltir, of Germanic origin; probably related to smelt 1 and melt

Synonyms for Muteness

blackout, calm, lull, peace, quiet, reticence, secrecy, stillness, censorship, death, dumbness, hush, laconism, noiselessness, quiescence, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, sleep, speechlessness, still, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness, dead air, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, saturninity