muttered
past simple and past participle ofmutter
mutter
verb[IorT]
uk/ˈmʌt.ər/us/ˈmʌt̬.ɚ/B2
tospeakquietlyand in alowvoicethat is noteasytohear, often when you areworriedorcomplainingabout something:
Stop muttering andspeakup!
He was muttering(away) tohimself.
Laurence muttered somethingabouthiswifeandleft.
He muttered somethingunderhisbreathto thepersonnext to him.
to talk to someone
- talkA group of men were talking in the street.
- speakCould I speak to you privately?
- sayI couldn't hear what they were saying.
- chatWe were just chatting about the party.
- have a chatWe had a little chat over the garden wall.
- chatterThey spent the morning chattering away.
- Oneguestat thecrowdedreceptionwasheardto mutter "It's like theBlackHole of Calcutta in here."
- She was mutteringcursesas shefumbledfor thelightswitch.
- 'I didn'tknowit would be thisexpensive,' he muttered.
Ways of talking
- beg the questionidiom
- blah
- blether
- blither
- coo
- declaim
- declamatory
- gabble
- loose
- mumble
- pipe
- ramble
- rattle on/away
- stage whisper
- talk trashidiom
- throwyourvoiceidiom
- trash
- trill
- word salad
- yak
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Complaining
Examplesofmuttered
muttered
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
To date, we havemutteredgood-will noises but have not delivered.
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Hemutteredthat we did not ask him.
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I think that hemutteredsomething about my having missed out the ethnic minorities.
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I have pointed out before that we must not havemutteredseated interventions.
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A couple ofmutteredprotests in 13 years is not sufficient and there will have to be a deep investigation.
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I have hadmutteredinformation to the effect that the road is already receiving an extremely high priority.
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The word"aid"has been degraded into charity, so that a blind man's thanks ismutteredas a curse.
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I think that that was the gist of what he has justmuttered.
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When he was challenged, hemutteredabout computers and machine tools which, by any definition, are not comparable since one must define the starting point in any of these things.
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Someonemutteredthat it was a rumour.
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Theymutteredharshly at that.
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Only one personmutteredto me in the street that there might be a case for road widening, but he had not really thought about it.
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Hemuttered"1971" on one occasion.
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We often hear itmutteredabout in other areas—the convoy theory, the inner group agreeing to this, that or the other, and the outer group not doing so.
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His troops gathered in a circle to discuss the challenge and his knightsmutteredamongst themselves but the king boldly took seven steps forward.
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- cash subsidy
- cash till
- cash-till
- cash transfer
- cash turnover
- cash-turnover
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