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Dumb

Dumb Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Dumb?
[adj] unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
[adj] lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals" [adj] unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock" [adj] slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dumb: dense | dim | dull | inarticulate | mute | obtuse | silent | slow | speechless | stupid | unarticulate Related Terms | Find terms related to Dumb: abiotic | anaudic | animal | animalian | animalic | animalistic | aphasic | aphonic | apish | asinine | awkward | azoic | batty | beastlike | beastly | beef-brained | beef-witted | befooled | beguiled | besotted | bestial | blankminded | blockheaded | blockish | Boeotian | bovine | brainless | breathless | brief | brusque | brutal | brute | brutelike | brutish | buffoonish | callow | chumpish | cloddish | close | closemouthed | close-tongued | cockeyed | concise | cowish | crass | crazy | credulous | curt | daffy | daft | dazed | dense | dizzy | doltish | doting | dull | dullard | dumbfounded | dumbstricken | dumbstruck | duncical | duncish | economical of words | empty | empty-headed | exanimate | fat | fatheaded | fatuitous | fatuous | flaky | fond | fool | foolheaded | foolish | fuddled | futile | gaga | gauche | goofy | green | groping | gross | gulled | idiotic | ignorant | imbecile | inane | inanimate | inanimated | inarticulate | incoherent | indisposed to talk | indistinct | ineducable | inept | inert | inexperienced | infatuated | innocent | insane | insensate | insensible | insentient | instinctive | instinctual | klutzy | know-nothing | kooky | laconic | lifeless | loony | lumpish | mad | maudlin | maundering | mindless | moronic | mum | mute | naive | nescient | nonconscious | nonliving | nonrational | numskulled | nutty | oafish | opaque | quiet | raw | reticent | sappy | screwy | senseless | sentimental | short | silent | silly | simple | snug | sottish | soulless | sparing of words | speechless | strange to | stricken dumb | stupid | subhuman | taciturn | tentative | terse | thick | thick-witted | thoughtless | tight-lipped | tongueless | tongue-tied | unacquainted | unanimated | unapprized | uncommunicative | uncomprehending | unconscious | unconversant | unenlightened | unfamiliar | unfeeling | unilluminated | uninformed | uninitiated | unintelligent | unknowing | unloquacious | unposted | unripe | unsure | untalkative | unteachable | unversed | vacuous | voiceless | wacky | wet | witless | word-bound | wordless | wrongheaded | zoic | zooidal | zoologic See Also | Dumb In Webster's Dictionary \Dumb\, a. [AS. dumb; akin to D. dom stupid, dumb, Sw.
dumb, Goth. dumbs; cf. Gr. ? blind. See {Deaf}, and cf.
{Dummy}.]
1. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter
articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.
--Hooker.
2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not
accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. --Shak.
To pierce into the dumb past. -- J. C.
Shairp.
3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.]
Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
--De Foe.
{Deaf and dumb}. See {Deaf-mute}.
{Dumb ague}, or {Dumb chill}, a form of intermittent fever
which has no well-defined ``chill.'' [U.S.]
{Dumb animal}, any animal except man; -- usually restricted
to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction
to man, who is a ``speaking animal.''
{Dumb cake}, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's
eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their
future husbands. --Halliwell.
{Dumb cane} (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family
({Dieffenbachia seguina}), which, when chewed, causes the
tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of
speech.
{Dumb crambo}. See under {crambo}.
{Dumb show}.
(a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown
in pantomime. ``Inexplicable dumb shows and noise.''
--Shak.
(b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story
in dumb show.
{To strike dumb}, to confound; to astonish; to render silent
by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of
speech.
Syn: Silent; speechless; noiseless. See {Mute}.
\Dumb\, v. t. To put to silence. [Obs.] --Shak. |
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