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The meaning of DUMB is lacking intelligence : stupid. How to use dumb in a sentence. Usage of Dumb: Usage Guide Synonym Discussion of Dumb.
1. a. Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects. b. Offensive Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans. See Usage Note at mute. 2. Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear: I was dumb with disbelief. 3. Unwilling to speak; taciturn. 4. Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words: dumb resentment. 5.
adjective. lacking the power to speak, either because of defects in the vocal organs or because of hereditary deafness. lacking the power of human speech. dumb animals. temporarily lacking or bereft of the power to speak. struck dumb. refraining from speech; uncommunicative. producing no sound; silent. a dumb piano.
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Dumb is the Old English word that means "mute, speechless," and itself came from an even older word dheubh meaning "confusion, stupefaction, dizziness." Today, dumb still means "unable to speak," but it doesn't have anything to do with intelligence. Its other meaning, however, does.
lacking the power of speech (often offensive when applied to humans): a dumb animal. temporarily unable to speak: dumb with astonishment. refraining from any or much speech; silent. made, done, etc., without speech. lacking some usual property, characteristic, etc. Show Business performed in pantomime; mimed.
1 day ago · 1. adjective. Someone who is dumb is completely unable to speak. [offensive] ...a young deaf and dumb man. 2. adjective [v-link ADJ] If someone is dumb on a particular occasion, they cannot speak because they are angry, shocked, or surprised. [literary] We were all struck dumb for a minute.
