dumb

Meaning of dumb

adjective
  1. temporarily unable or unwilling to speak.
    they stood dumb while the attacker poured out a stream of abuse
  2. (of a person) unable to speak, most typically because of congenital deafness.
    he was born deaf, dumb, and blind
  3. stupid.
    a dumb question
  4. (of a computer terminal) able only to transmit data to or receive data from a computer; having no independent processing capability.
verb
  1. make dumb or unheard; silence.
    a splendour that dazed the mind and dumbed the tongue

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse dumbr and Gothic dumbs ‘mute’, also to Dutch dom ‘stupid’ and German dumm ‘stupid’.

Information about dumb

  • The plural form of dumb is: dumbs.
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Hyphenation of dumb

dumb

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • dumb is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dumb synonyms

Meaning dense:

dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow

Meaning speechless:

speechless

Meaning mute:

mute, silent

Meaning not speaking or involving speech:

wordless

Meaning not able to speak or express opinions:

voiceless

Meaning unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily:

inarticulate

Meaning (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little:

taciturn

Meaning unwilling to talk or impart information:

uncommunicative

Meaning not fond of or given to talking; uncommunicative:

untalkative

Meaning one's mother:

mum

Meaning having no voice or sound; mute:

aphonic

Meaning having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense:

stupid

Meaning having or showing a low level of intelligence:

unintelligent

Meaning lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated:

ignorant

Meaning stupid; very foolish:

brainless

Meaning acting or done without justification and with no concern for the consequences:

mindless

Meaning lacking good sense or judgement; unwise:

foolish

Meaning foolish; stupid:

witless

Meaning big, bulky, or crude in form or appearance:

blockish

Meaning (of a person) stupid; idiotic:

doltish

Meaning easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty:

simple

Meaning having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless:

vacuous

Meaning offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland:

vapid

Meaning very stupid:

idiotic

Meaning very foolish or stupid:

moronic

Meaning foolish or stupid:

cretinous

Meaning (of a person or their manner) sluggish or stupid:

bovine

Meaning roughly or clumsily formed or shaped:

lumpish

Meaning of low intelligence; stupid:

thick

Meaning stupefied by sleep or a drug:

dopey

Meaning silly and eccentric or scatterbrained:

dippy

Meaning feeling drowsy and lazy:

dozy

Meaning unintelligent; stupid:

thickheaded

Meaning silly; foolish:

daft

Meaning stupid or silly:

dotish

dumb antonyms

Meaning quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent:

clever

Translation of dumb

Words that rhyme with dumb

bedumb

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