MURMURS Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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plural of murmur

as in whines

an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment finished the tedious job without a murmur

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as in whispers

speech that is not clear enough to be understood could just barely hear the murmurs of the audience

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verb

present tense third-person singular of murmur

as in complains

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely no prisoner dared murmur out loud

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as in mutters

to speak softly and unclearly a college professor who tends to murmur

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Recent Examples of murmurs

Noun

That absence has allowed for murmurs of doubt to seep in and create a space for a new enclave of rap fans to dismiss his music as generationally specific despite his very real track record and influence over pop culture. —

Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 31 May 2026 Minnesota has been heavily linked to the Greek forward dating back to the trade deadline, and those murmurs don’t figure to subside in the next month-plus. —

Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 26 May 2026 As the 2022 trade deadline approached, murmurs reached Dallas that the Knicks were on the verge of hiring Brunson’s father, Rick, as an assistant for head coach Tom Thibodeau, the same role Rick had held in Thibodeau’s two previous stops with the Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves. —

Fred Katz, New York Times, 26 May 2026 The room filled with soft murmurs. —

Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026 But murmurs of laughter broke out a few times when justices noted constitutional tensions in the case. —

Michael Collins, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026 Both threw cold water on those murmurs, reiterating love for their respective schools. —

Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026 All three contribute airy, wordless vocals, often just overlapping coos or melodic murmurs, that give the atmospheric strings real contours and depths. —

Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2026 Monday night, in a 5-4 vote that drew some murmurs and shouts from the crowd, the council did not move the request for the money out of committee. —

Louisa Moller, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026

Verb

The remark drew a mix of gasps, murmurs and laughs from others in the room. —

Emily Chang, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026 Located at the foot of Petit Piton, guests are transported to a slice of tranquility, where the sound of a running stream murmurs in the background. —

Nneka M. Okona, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026 Tess murmurs, having had no idea that Alex, who works in finance, has started moonlighting in standup. —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025 In between each narrative episode, like an intertitle in a silent film, Guanyin, the goddess of Mercy (the exquisite soprano Mei Gui Zhang), murmurs Buddhist verses from her floating lotus. —

Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025 An aide for former first daughter Chelsea Clinton shut down murmurs about her entering the race. —

Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025 But even amid the general euphoria, there recently have been murmurs about whether AI mania will prove to be an echo of the late 1990s dot-com boom and meltdown that plunged Silicon Valley into a funk that lasted several years. —

Staff, Austin American Statesman, 28 Aug. 2025 The River Coln murmurs gently here—weaving through golden buttercups and forget-me-nots, while plump ducks paddle lazily beneath canopies of willow. —

Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 There have also been murmurs around Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler — but nothing more. —

Al Weaver, The Hill, 1 June 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for murmurs

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There had been political whispers in South Windsor since the November election about whether the decision disqualifying Amadasun was part of a Republican ploy to keep Democrats from achieving a council supermajority.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026
This might be as simple as a public argument – hissing whispers in an elevator.

— Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 29 May 2026