'Dumb' definitions:
Definition of 'dumb'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]
adjective
Temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock" [syn: speechless, dumb]
adjective
Lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"
adjective
Definition of 'Dumb'
From: GCIDE
- Dumb \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. [1913 Webster]
- To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show. [1913 Webster]
- This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To pierce into the dumb past. -- J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dumb'
From: GCIDE
- Dumb \Dumb\, v. t. To put to silence. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] dumbbell
Definition of 'dumb'
From: Easton
- Dumb from natural infirmity (Ex. 4:11); not knowing what to say (Prov. 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Ps. 39:9; Lev. 10:3). Christ repeatedly restored the dumb (Matt. 9:32, 33; Luke 11:14; Matt. 12:22) to the use of speech.
Synonyms of 'dumb'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- 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,
- tongue-tied,
- tongueless,
- 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