Word.ws English Dictionary

mutist

mutist noun: one who exhibits mutism.

Noun

mutist (plural mutists)

  1. One who exhibits mutism.
    • The parents of elective mutists often feel alienated from one another.1999, Sheila Spasaro, Charles E. Schaefer, Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children, page 199

Forms of mutist

pluralmutists

Origin of mutist

From mute + -ist.

Questions about mutist

What does mutist mean?
Mutist means one who exhibits mutism.
What part of speech is mutist?
Mutist is a noun.
What is the plural of mutist?
The plural of mutist is mutists.

Words near mutist in the dictionary

  1. mutis
  2. mutis mundis
  3. mutis mutandis
  4. mutism
  5. mutisms
  6. mutist
  7. mutistic
  8. mutists
  9. Mutley
  10. mutlub
  11. Muto

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mutist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mutist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mutist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.