mumble

1. 1.

   a soft indistinct utterance

   Broaderutterance

Other forms of mumble

plural

mumbles·

past tense

mumbled·

present participle

mumbling·

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 mumble

What does mumble mean?

mumble means "talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mumble?

mumble has 2 syllables: mum-ble. The stress falls on "mum". In IPA it is /ˈmʌmbəl/.

What is another word for mumble?

Close synonyms include mutter, maunder, mussitate, gum. 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 mumble a common word?

mumble is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.