mumbleverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈmʌm.bəl/us/ˈmʌm.bəl/B2 to speak quietly and in a way that is not clear so that the words are difficult to understand:
She mumbled something about being too busy.
[ + speech ] "I'm sorry," he mumbled.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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