Usually means: Speaking softly and unclearly; indistinct.
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  1. mumbling: Merriam-Webster
  2. mumbling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mumbling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Mumbling, mumbling: Wordnik
  5. mumbling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. mumbling: Wiktionary
  7. Mumbling, mumbling: Dictionary.com
  8. mumbling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Mumbling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. mumbling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. mumbling: Rhymezone
  12. Mumbling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. mumbling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. mumbling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mumbling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Mumbling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mumbling: Encyclopedia

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  1. Mumbling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mumbling)

▸ noun:  An act in which someone mumbles something

Similar:
muttering, gumming, speaking, mumblement, mumblage, murmuration, babbling, mutterance, mumbly Joe, mushmouth, more...

Opposite:
articulate, clear, coherent, lucid

Types:
inaudible, inaudible muttering, murmuring, mutter, more...

Phrases:
when someone is mumbling, muttering and mumbling, mesmerized mumbling, more...

Adjectives:
low, incoherent, more, unintelligible, insane, indistinct, inarticulate, constant, mere, soft, monotonous

Colors:
    gray,     muted blue,     dull green,     dusty rose,     faded lavender, more...



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Similar:
muttering, gumming, speaking, mumblement, mumblage, murmuration, babbling, mutterance, mumbly Joe, mushmouth, more...

Opposite:
articulate, clear, coherent, lucid

Types:
inaudible, inaudible muttering, murmuring, mutter, more...

Phrases:
when someone is mumbling, muttering and mumbling, mesmerized mumbling, more...

Adjectives:
low, incoherent, more, unintelligible, insane, indistinct, inarticulate, constant, mere, soft, monotonous

Colors:
    gray,     muted blue,     dull green,     dusty rose,     faded lavender, more...



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