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UK
/dˈʌm/
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[ US /ˈdəm/ ]
[ US /ˈdəm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking the power of human speech
dumb animals - unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
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temporarily incapable of speaking
struck dumb
speechless with shock -
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
worked with the slow students
he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick
never met anyone quite so dim
so dense he never understands anything I say to him
How To Use dumb In A Sentence
- While maintaining a level of accessibility and providing information are important, this must not dumb the work down, compromise the artists' intentions, or remove the challenge aspect of art that many people thrive on.
- Well, my boy Joey is eight years old, and he's a foul-mouthed dumb-ass little loser just like his father.
- She was struck dumb at the news.
- Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament.
- The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
- What was the State of Florida doing to these poor, dumb animals?
- We do not wish her to grow up dumb like the average doll.
- Anybody can be anybody they want when they are sitting in mommies basement with nothing to do but get online and call people dumbasses. Is “The Fourth Kind” real or fake? Secrets revealed » Scene-Stealers
- I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
- If we look dumb enough, someone's bound to come and help us out.