Antonyms for muffledmuf·fled

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1. dull, muffled, muted, softenedadjective

   being or made softer or less loud or clear

   "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"

   Antonyms:
   bare, loud

   Synonyms:
   thudding, dim, wearisome, quiet, dense, muted, boring, dumb, leaden, tedious, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, subdued, tiresome, ho-hum, irksome, hushed, dull, softened

2. muffledadjective

   wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy

   "children muffled almost to the eyebrows"

   Antonyms:
   bare, loud

   Synonyms:
   muted, softened, dull

How to use muffled in a sentence?

1. Leo C. Rosten:

   In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

2. Billy Sawyer:

   I started yelling and Michelle yelled back, very faintly, and it was muffled -- 'Help me! Help me!'.

3. Laith Khalef:

   That's a pretty big stimulus to those oil consumers, but we haven't really seen it yet, that's a theme that perhaps is not being played out in the market. Part of the reason the fuel price benefit is more muffled than in previous cycles, analysts say, is because consumers are paying down their own debt, uncertain about their future wage growth. Another reason is that there are more things to spend money on that are not tracked by traditional measures, such as online home-sharing service Airbnb or car ride service Uber.

4. Denis Diderot:

   The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

5. Charles De Gaulle:

   Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity cannot be cured but it can be muffled with duct-tape.

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