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# muted

«muted» in Mova's school dictionary: **Quiet and soft, not loud** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (muted); verb past form of mute (mute, mutes, muted, muting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Quiet and soft, not loud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#m1)

2) (of colours) Soft and not bright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#m2)

3) (of feelings or reactions) Not strong; held back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#m3)

4) (computing) With the sound turned off, as on a video call or phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and online-lesson life, you are muted when your microphone is off ("you're on mute!"). In art, muted colours are soft greys, browns and pale shades. In news, a muted reaction means people were not very excited. Phrases: on mute, muted colours, muted response.

### examples

- You're muted, so we can't hear you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#x1)
- The teacher muted everyone during the video call. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#x2)
- The room was painted in muted greens and greys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#x3)
- The trumpet sounded muted with the cup in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#x4)
- The news got a muted reaction from the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#x5)
- I muted the TV during the adverts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/#x6)

### note

Past form of mute (to turn off sound). Mute as an adjective once described people who could not speak; today that is seen as rude, so say non-speaking instead.

### In the corpora

- [He muted the man (the silence was wonderful), blocked him, and his dad showed him the report button.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/4/)
- [Ruby heard grown-up strangers swearing on voice chat and muted all voice chat in the settings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «muted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.