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3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: muted \muted\ adj. 1. same as {quiet}; as, the muted atmosphere of a church. Opposite of {noisy}. Syn: hushed. [WordNet 1.5] 2. softened; rendered less loud or harsh; -- of sounds and instruments which produce sounds; as, muted trumpets. Syn: dull, muffled, softened. [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: muted adj 1: in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand" [syn: {hushed}, {subdued}, {quiet}] 2: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: {dull}, {muffled}, {softened}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 105 Moby Thesaurus words for "muted": accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bated, bilabial, blind, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, dental, dim, dissimilated, dorsal, dull, dulled, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackluster, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, lusterless, mat, mid, monophthongal, muffled, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, smothered, soft, softened, sonant, sordo, stifled, stopped, stressed, strong, subdued, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
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