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muttered

ADJECTIVE
broken
Synonyms
STRONGEST
discontinuous stuttering
STRONG
disjointed halting hesitating stammering
WEAK
hesitant incoherent mumbled unintelligible weak
Antonyms
WEAK
continuous flowing fluent unbroken
ADJECTIVE
incoherent
Synonyms
STRONGEST
disjointed incomprehensible incongruous irrational jumbled muddled puzzling rambling uneven
WEAK
breathless confused disconnected discontinuous discordant disordered dumb faltering inarticulate incohesive inconsistent indistinct indistinguishable maundering muffled mumbling mute raving stammering stuttering tongue-tied uncommunicative unconnected uncoordinated unvocal wandering wild
Antonyms
STRONGEST
connected intelligible understandable
WEAK
coherent
ADJECTIVE
whispered
Synonyms
STRONG
breathed quiet

Example Sentences

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"Hoodlums," muttered 80-year-old village chief Joseph Batangouna as he walked past a group of young people sitting by the side of road in Mayitoukou, Congo-Brazzaville.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

“After overhearing a passionate ideological dispute around her own kitchen table between the future Nobel laureate for literature and his radical friends from the University of Chicago, she muttered: ‘Smart, smart, smart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Though he’s given to explosive bursts of speech, as the character has developed, the humor he plays becomes more subtle and quiet, peppered with muttered comments and sotto voce asides he means to be heard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

I muttered my song again: “Flying in circles for 90 minutes somewhere near Rochester.”

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2025

“Vanish? Mayhem?” he muttered, packing the rotten fruit from the dump around his cinder mushrooms.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman