Synonyms of shut up

shut up

verb

1

as in to dry up

to stop talking

you have no right to tell the rest of us to shut up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dry up
• hush
• clam up
• quiet (down)
• belt up
• settle (down)
• calm (down)
• cool (down)
• dummy up
• hold one's tongue
• pipe down
• haw
• hem

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• speak
• talk
• speak out
• speak up
• spout (off)
• talk up
• sound off
• pipe up

2

as in to shush

to stop the noise or speech of

nothing I said would shut them up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shush
• silence
• quiet
• mute
• settle
• dumb
• hush
• extinguish
• still
• quell
• squelch
• quieten

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stir
• agitate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shut up

These days we are surrounded by ghosts and gossamer visions vying for our attention, trying to tell us something vital—or as mundane as to shut up already, like in my case. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Talk is cheap, but today the automaker put up instead of shutting up by revealing a new Nissan Z concept with a factory T-top, a feature that vanished from sports cars over two decades ago. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 23 Sep. 2026

Ted Cruz tells moderate Republicans to 'shut up' and support PaxtonNeed a news break? — Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Commentators hungry for superstar validation of their culture war were calling her silence a moral failure, and some of them were the same people who, in previous news cycles, had insisted that athletes needed to shut up. — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026