mum

1. 1.

   failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to

   “the witness remained silent”

   Synonymssilent

   Similaruncommunicative

Other forms of mum

plural

mums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mum

What does mum mean?

mum means "of China". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mum?

mum has 1 syllable: mum. In IPA it is /ˈmʌm/.

What is another word for mum?

Close synonyms include florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum, Dendranthema grandifloruom, Chrysanthemum morifolium, ma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mum a common word?

mum is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.