Definitions for dumb

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Spelling: [duhm]

IPA: /dʌm/

Dumb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in dumb (bdmu).

Definitions for dumb

adjective

1. lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
2. lacking the power of speech (offensive when applied to humans):
3. temporarily unable to speak:
4. refraining from any or much speech; silent.
5. made, done, etc., without speech.
6. lacking some usual property, characteristic, etc.
7. performed in pantomime; mimed.
8. Computers. pertaining to the inability to do processing locally: Compare intelligent (def 4).
9. Nautical. (of a barge) without means of propulsion. (of any craft) without means of propulsion, steering, or signaling.

Verb phrases

1. dumb down, Informal. to make or become less intellectual, simpler, or less sophisticated:

Origin of dumb

before 1000; Old English; cognate with Old Norse dumbr, Gothic dumbs, Old Saxon dumb, Old High German tump, German dumm

Examples for dumb

I thought I was going to have to dumb it down for this folk-pop singer.

The way I film is based on the assumption that the audience is as smart and dumb as I am.

The holy possession lasted but a minute or so, and left her dumb.

First the blind, then the deaf and the dumb, then the halt and the lame—and so on.

He resolved to pretend to be dumb, and he charged Terence not to betray him.

dumb with fright, the boys stood and looked at the destruction.

Does it matter whether Taylor Swift wants me to inflate my Internet notoriety by doing a dumb thing where I lip sync to her music?

Now they knew all the awful truth, and stared at each other like dumb men.

“Which proves he is as dumb as a bag of hammers,” the official says.

Republicans know the truth about these proposals deep down, or I think most do (I suppose some actually are that dumb).