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say it: MYOO-tid
muted is an adjective meaning "in a softened tone". It is pronounced /ˈmjutɪd/ — MYOO-tid. It carries 2 recorded senses.
being or made softer or less loud or clear
“the dull boom of distant breaking waves”
“muffled drums”
“the muffled noises of the street”
“muted trumpets”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for muted come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.