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mutest

mutest is the superlative form of mute.

Meaning of mute

Adjective

mute (comparative muter, superlative mutest)

  1. Not having the power of speech; dumb.
    • Thus, while the mute Creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their Earthy Mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected Eyes / Beholds his own hereditary Skies. / From ſuch rude Principles our Form began; / And Earth was Metamorphos'd into Man.1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 4
  2. Silent; not making a sound.
    • He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire ſtood mute, / And ſilence was in Heav’n: […]1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature...
  3. Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
  4. Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.

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Questions about mutest

What is mutest the superlative form of?
Mutest is the superlative form of mute.

Words near mutest in the dictionary

  1. mutesarrifs
  2. mutessarif
  3. mutessarifat
  4. mutessarifats
  5. mutessarifs
  6. mutest
  7. mutetrahedra
  8. mutetrahedron
  9. mutetrahedrons
  10. mutex
  11. mutexed

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