PURRED Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in muttered

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purred

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verb

past tense of purr

as in whispered

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Adjective

Often made by anonymous rappers and producers with a monkish dedication to their craft, this isn’t rap for the live show but for the headphones, music where every muttered word and barely-there snare matters.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026

Definition of muttered

Verb

My skin would tingle whenever Iverson got close to that mic and whispered along its neck, as if his breath were actually going over my neck too.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
Then Mum whispered a few words to her, lay down next to her and said the Rosary with her.

— Kerry Kennedy, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of whispered

Adjective

Now, the sequence is more likely to end in shouted abuse and maybe a scuffle, the video shot on phones and streamed — sometimes live — on platforms like Kick or Facebook.

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
This blend of styles is not only about presenting contrasts—clean versus shouted vocals, melodic versus dissonant riffs, headbanging versus moshing—but also preserving the murky in-between that only elevates the extreme.

— Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of shouted

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During the film, audience members both laughed and gasped in horror as the events of OpenAI’s founding and 2023 unraveling were brought to screen.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Same lethal drug, different outcomes After the pentobarbital was administered Wednesday night, Howard took a couple of breaths and gasped, the AP reported, before making snoring sounds that grew quiet within 30 seconds.

— Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of gasped

Adjective

Straker, the foul-mouthed, Daily Mail–provoking British chef, has made his way stateside.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
The loud-mouthed cameos from ex-soccer players Zlatan Ibrahimović and Eric Cantona in Nike’s World Cup hero film Rip the Script were indicative of this, chiming with an older, more arrogant vision of Nike seen in the ’90s and the aughts.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of mouthed

Verb

Rutschman said some of his former Orioles teammates chirped at him throughout the game and gave him a hard time about getting around the ballpark as a visiting player.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Social media has chirped with photos and comments from birders, some of whom see this as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

— Mindy Schauer, Oc Register, 3 Sep. 2026

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