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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand" [syn: hushed, muted, subdued, quiet]
2: 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" [syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1855 1. a. being mute ; silent b. toned down ; low-key, subdued 2. provided with or produced or modified by the use of a mute • mutedly adverb

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Muted colours are soft and gentle, not bright and strong. He likes sombre, muted colours–she likes bright colours... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bated, bilabial, blind, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, dental, dim, dissimilated, dorsal, dull, dulled, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackluster, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, lusterless, mat, mid, monophthongal, muffled, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, smothered, soft, softened, sonant, sordo, stifled, stopped, stressed, strong, subdued, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide