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"

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mute.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.