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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects.
- adjective Offensive Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans.
- adjective Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear.
- adjective Unwilling to speak; taciturn.
- adjective Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words.
- adjective Nautical Not self-propelling.
- adjective Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid.
- adjective Unintentional; haphazard.
- transitive verb To make silent or dumb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become dumb; be silent.
- To make dumb; silence; overpower the sound of.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To put to silence.
- adjective Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds.
- adjective Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words.
- adjective rare Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
- adjective See
Deaf-mute . - adjective [U.S.] a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined “chill.”
- adjective any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a “speaking animal.”
- adjective a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.
- adjective (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. - adjective See under
crambo . - adjective Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in
dumb show . - adjective to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
silence . - verb transitive To make
stupid . - verb transitive To
represent as stupid. - verb transitive To
reduce theintellectual demands of. - adjective Unable to
speak ; lacking power of speech. - adjective informal, pejorative, especially of a person extremely
stupid . - adjective figuratively
Pointless ,foolish , lackingintellectual content or value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective temporarily incapable of speaking
- adjective unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- adjective slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- adjective lacking the power of human speech
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Boy were we dumb to read them back in the 60's..dumb but ahh what silly fun.
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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DUMB: A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used in a more pejorative sense.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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- Boeotian
- abiotic
- anaudic
- animal
- animalian
- animalic
- animalistic
- aphasic
- aphonic
- apish
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- awkward
- azoic
- banal
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- brutal
- brute
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- buffoonish
- callow
- chumpish
- cloddish
- close
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- closemouthed
- cockeyed
- concise
- cowish
- crass
- crazy
- credulous
- curt
- daffy
- daft
- dazed
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- disvoice
- dizzy
- doltish
- dopey
- doting
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- dullard
- dumbfounded
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- duncical
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- economical of words
- empty
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- exanimate
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- fatheaded
- fatuitous
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- feeble-minded
- flaky
- fond
- fool
- foolheaded
- foolish
- fuddled
- futile
- gag
- gaga
- gauche
- goofy
- green
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- gross
- gulled
- idiotic
- ignorant
- imbecile
- inane
- inanimate
- inanimated
- inarticulate
- inarticulated
- incoherent
- indisposed to talk
- indistinct
- ineducable
- inept
- inert
- inexperienced
- infatuated
- innocent
- insane
- insensate
- insensible
- insentient
- instinctive
- instinctual
- klutzy
- know-nothing
- kooky
- laconic
- lifeless
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- lumpish
- mad
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- maundering
- mindless
- moronic
- mum
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- senseless
- sentimental
- short
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- silly
- simple
- snug
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- soulless
- sparing of words
- speechless
- strange to
- stricken dumb
- stupid
- subhuman
- taciturn
- tentative
- terse
- thick
- thick-witted
- thoughtless
- tight-lipped
- tongue-tied
- tongueless
- unable
- unacquainted
- unanimated
- unapprized
- uncommunicative
- uncomprehending
- unconscious
- unconversant
- unenlightened
- unfamiliar
- unfeeling
- unilluminated
- uninformed
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- unposted
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- untalkative
- unteachable
- unversed
- vacuous
- voiceless
- vulgar
- wacky
- wet
- witless
- word-bound
- wordless
- wrongheaded
- zoic
- zooidal
- zoologic
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June 14, 2012