Murmuring Synonyms and Antonyms

Make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. muttering
  2. grumbling
  3. whispering
  4. moaning
  5. croaking
  6. uttering
  7. sounding
  8. mumbling
  9. reporting
  10. purring
  11. humming
  12. groaning
  13. fretting
  14. droning
  15. complaining
  16. buzzing
  17. breathing
  18. babbling
A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. muttering
  2. mutter
  3. murmur
  4. grumble
  5. grumbling
  6. murmuration
  7. mussitation
To complain in low indistinct tones
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. muttering
  2. grunting
  3. grumbling
Making a low continuous indistinct sound
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. susurrant
  2. whispering

Murmuring Sentence Examples

  • She was murmuring in a frustrated tone.

  • A man and a woman in their prime stood before them, and the light murmuring of the crowd hushed.

  • This period of murmuring and misery culminated in the Great Revolt of 1381, a phenomenon whose origins must be sought in the most complicated causes, but whose outbreak was due in the main to a general feeling that the realm was being misgoverned, and that some one must be 1381.

  • From the very first his reign was a time of war, foreign and domestic, of murmuring, and of humiliating b ill shifts and devices.

  • Before he became elector Frederick had promised the emperor that he would restore Schwiebus, and he was now called upon to fulfil this engagement, which after some murmuring he did in 1695.

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