Word Meanings - MUTTERINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.

Related words: (words related to MUTTERINGLY)

• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• INDISTINCTLY
  In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.
• INDISTINCT
  1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance. "Indistinct as water is in water." Shak. 2. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused;
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MUTTERINGLY
  With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• VOICEFUL
  Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• INDISTINCTNESS
  The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.
• INDISTINCTIVE
  Having nothing distinctive; common. -- In`dis*tinc"tive*ness, n.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MUTTER
  Etym: 1. To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complains or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Is. viii. 19. Meantime your filthy foreigner will
• INDISTINCTIBLE
  Indistinguishable. T. Warton.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• VOICED
  Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed. Voiced stop, Voice stop , a stopped consonant made with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are closed at some
• VOICELESS
  Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. Voiceless stop , a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n. (more info)
• ARTICULATION
  A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united , or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance , or they may be more or less freely movable, when the
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• ABARTICULATION
  Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INARTICULATION
  Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.
• EXARTICULATION
  Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• OUTVOICE
  To exceed in noise. Shak.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• LOUD-VOICED
  Having a loud voice; noisy; clamorous. Byron.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.