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- Dictionarydumb/dəm/
adjective
- 1. temporarily unable or unwilling to speak: "she stood dumb while he poured out a stream of abuse" Similar
- 2. (of a person) unable to speak, most typically because of congenital deafness: dated, offensive "he was born deaf, dumb, and blind" Similar
verb
- 1. make dumb or unheard; silence: literary "a splendor that dazed the mind and dumbed the tongue"
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1. a. : lacking intelligence : stupid. pretended to be dumb. b. : showing a lack of intelligence. asking dumb questions. a dumb look on his face. c. : requiring no intelligence. dumb luck. 2. a. : lacking the human power of speech. dumb animals. b. dated, offensive, of a person; see usage paragraph below : lacking the ability to speak : mute. 3.
Definitions of dumb. adjective. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity. “ dumb officials make some really dumb decisions” synonyms: dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow. stupid. lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity. adjective. lacking the power of human speech. “ dumb animals” synonyms: inarticulate, unarticulate.
Dumb definition: lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted. . See examples of DUMB used in a sentence.
A dumb device cannot connect to the internet, or cannot operate independently using computer technology: Radio receivers were dumb devices - copper coils , essentially . The kit turns a dumb bomb into a smart bomb by attaching a GPS system .
adjective. 1. lacking the power of human speech. dumb animals. 2. offensive. lacking the power to speak, either because of defects in the vocal organs or because of hereditary deafness. 3. temporarily lacking or bereft of the power to speak. struck dumb.
1. lacking the power of human speech: dumb animals. 2. (Pathology) offensive lacking the power to speak, either because of defects in the vocal organs or because of hereditary deafness. 3. temporarily lacking or bereft of the power to speak: struck dumb. 4. refraining from speech; uncommunicative.
From Middle English dumb, from Old English dumb (“silent, silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeubʰ-(“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
Definition of dumb adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
DUMB meaning: 1. stupid: 2. physically unable to talk. Learn more.
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