Mute

Look up Mute, mute, muté, or mutē in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Muteness is a speech disorder in which a person lacks the ability to speak.

Mute or the Mute may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Mute (2005 film), a short film by Melissa Joan Hart
• Mute (2018 film), a science-fiction thriller directed by Duncan Jones
• "Mute" (The Twilight Zone), a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone
• Muted (TV series), a 2023 Spanish Netflix series
• Mutes, anthropomorphic animals in the American animated television series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Music

• Mute (music), a device used to alter the sound of a musical instrument
• Left-hand muting or palm mute, guitar muting techniques
• Mute Records, a record label in the United Kingdom
• Mute (album), a 2000 indie rock compilation album from Hush Records
• Muted (album), a 2003 album from hip hop artist Alias

In print

• Mute (novel), a 1981 novel by Piers Anthony
• "Mute" (short story), by Stephen King
• Mute, a character in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
• Mute (magazine), an online magazine of culture and politics

People

• Múte Bourup Egede (born 1987), Prime Minister of Greenland
• Shō Gen (1528–1572), king of the Ryukyu Kingdom called Gen the mute
• Pârvu Mutu (1657–1735), Wallachian Romanian muralist and church painter nicknamed Pârvu the Mute

Other uses

• Mute (death customs), a professional mourner in Victorian and other European cultures
• Mute (food), a soup from Colombia
• Mute Island, part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia
• A silent letter, in phonology

See also

• Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), French-born Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor known ironically as "El Mudo" ("The Mute")
• Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526–1579), Spanish Mannerist painter called "El Mudo"

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