mumbling

Speech parts

1. mumbling - Noun

2. mumbling - Adjective

3. mumbling - Verb

Meaning

of Mumble

Low; indistinct; inarticulate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

gumming maunder low mutter babble speaking breath awkward halting incoherent whisper rambling whispering murmur speechless

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Antonyms

easy asserted accepting fluent crying articulate

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Hypernyms

chewing chew diction mastication enunciation manduction

Phrases with the word

sparrow mumbling

Examples

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. Derek Bailey

Iskilip is senile, more than half converted to his own artificial creed. He was mumbling about prophecies Val Nira made long ago, true prophecies. Bah! Tricks of memory and wishfulness. Poul Anderson

You know what Canino will do---beat my teeth out and then kick me in the stomach for mumbling. Raymond Chandler

I'm sorry, am I mumbling? Tell me when I'm mumbling. Damn ... I always mumble. Jimi Hendrix

And this time I forget to slip into your slumber The light is on the left side of your head And I'm standing in your doorway And I'm mumbling and I can't remember the last thing that ran through my head. Van Morrison

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. Bill Murray

Close letter words and terms

mumblesome mumblety-peg mumbletypeg mumblingly mumbly mumbly joe