muted

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: mut=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

muted, adj. 

•  same as quiet; as, the muted atmosphere of a church. Opposite of noisy.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  softened; rendered less loud or harsh; -- of sounds and instruments which produce sounds; as, muted trumpets.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

muted

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