Dumb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects.
  • adj. Often Offensive Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans. See Usage Note at mute.
  • adj. Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear: I was dumb with disbelief.
  • adj. Unwilling to speak; taciturn.
  • adj. Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words: dumb resentment.
  • adj. Nautical Not self-propelling.
  • adj. Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid: dumb officials; a dumb decision.
  • adj. Unintentional; haphazard: dumb luck.
  • v. To make silent or dumb.
  • phrasal-verb. down Slang To rewrite for a less educated or less sophisticated audience.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To silence.
  • v. To make stupid.
  • v. To represent as stupid.
  • v. To reduce the intellectual demands of.
  • adj. Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
  • adj. extremely stupid.
  • adj. Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds.
  • adj. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words.
  • adj. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
  • v. To put to silence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Mute; silent; refraining from speech.
  • Destitute of the power of speech; unable to utter articulate sounds: as, a deaf and dumb person; the dumb brutes.
  • Mute; not accompanied with or emitting speech or sound: as, a dumb show; dumb signs.
  • Hence Lacking some usual power, manifestation, characteristic, or accompaniment; destitute of reality in some respect; irregular; simulative: as, dumb ague; dumb craft. See phrases below.
  • Dull; stupid; doltish.
  • Deficient in clearness or brightness, as a color.
  • Synonyms and Mute, etc. See silent.
  • To become dumb; be silent.
  • To make dumb; silence; overpower the sound of.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. temporarily incapable of speaking
  • adj. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
  • adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
  • adj. lacking the power of human speech
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    dumbed    dumbing    dumbness    dumbs   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    noiseless    silent    speechless    mute    unable    voiceless    tongueless    inarticulated    gag    disvoice   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brum    Krum    Mum    alum    become    brum    bum    chum    clum    come   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stupid    helpless    mute    silent    crazy    blind    sick    herself    old    youth