'Dummy' definitions:
Definition of 'dummy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"
noun
A person who does not talk [syn: dummy, silent person]
noun
noun
A figure representing the human form
noun
A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet [syn: blank, dummy, blank shell]
verb
Make a dummy of; "dummy up the books that are to be published" [syn: dummy, dummy up]
Definition of 'Dummy'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Dummy'
From: GCIDE
- Dummy \Dum"my\, n.; pl. Dummies.
- 1. One who is dumb. --H. Smith. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A thick-witted person; a dolt. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards. [1913 Webster]
- 8. A floating barge connected with a pier. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards. The partner of the dummy plays it. Dumose
Synonyms of 'dummy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a nobody,
- a nothing,
- ace,
- adherent,
- advocate,
- affected,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- ancilla,
- apocryphal,
- appliance,
- artificial,
- ass,
- assumed,
- attorney,
- backup,
- backup man,
- bastard,
- best bower,
- block,
- blockhead,
- Boeotian,
- bogus,
- bower,
- brummagem,
- burlesque,
- bust,
- cards,
- carving,
- champion,
- change,
- changeling,
- Charlie McCarthy,
- cheat,
- cipher,
- clay model,
- clinquant,
- clod,
- clubs,
- cold-type typesetting,
- colorable,
- colored,
- common man,
- comparison,
- composing,
- composing stick,
- composition,
- computerized typesetting,
- contrivance,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- creature,
- deaf-mute,
- deck,
- deputy,
- deuce,
- device,
- diamonds,
- dimwit,
- disciple,
- distorted,
- doll,
- dolly,
- dolt,
- donkey,
- dope,
- double,
- dressed up,
- dud,
- dullard,
- dullhead,
- dumb cluck,
- dumbbell,
- dummkopf,
- dunce,
- dupe,
- duplication,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- face cards,
- facsimile,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- false,
- falsified,
- fantoccini,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figure,
- figurehead,
- figurine,
- fill-in,
- flunky,
- flush,
- follower,
- fool,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- front,
- front man,
- full house,
- furniture,
- galley chase,
- garbled,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- gillie,
- gingerbread man,
- go-between,
- goon,
- gowk,
- hand,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hanger-on,
- hearts,
- henchman,
- hoax,
- hollow man,
- hot-metal typesetting,
- idiot,
- ignoramus,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- implement,
- imposition,
- impostor,
- insignificancy,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- Intertype,
- jack,
- jackal,
- jackstraw,
- jobbernowl,
- joker,
- junk,
- junky,
- justification,
- king,
- knave,
- knockoff,
- lackey,
- lackwit,
- lamebrain,
- lay figure,
- layout,
- left bower,
- lever,
- lieutenant,
- lightweight,
- likeness,
- line of type,
- Linotype,
- little fellow,
- little guy,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- looby,
- loon,
- make-believe,
- makeshift,
- man,
- man of straw,
- man-made,
- manikin,
- mannequin,
- mannikin,
- marionette,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- mediocrity,
- medium,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- midwife,
- minion,
- mock,
- mock-up,
- model,
- Monotype,
- monument,
- moron,
- mute,
- myrmidon,
- nebbish,
- next best thing,
- niais,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- ninnyhammer,
- nitwit,
- nobody,
- nobody one knows,
- noddy,
- nominal head,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- numskull,
- obscurity,
- organ,
- pacifier,
- pack,
- pair,
- paranymph,
- paraphrase,
- parody,
- paste,
- pawn,
- personnel,
- perverted,
- phony,
- photocomposition,
- photosetting,
- phototypesetter,
- phototypesetting machine,
- picture cards,
- pilot model,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pinchbeck,
- pip-squeak,
- playing cards,
- plaything,
- pleader,
- portrait bust,
- pretended,
- procurator,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- pseudo,
- punk,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- put,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quasi,
- queen,
- queer,
- quoin,
- relief,
- replacement,
- replica,
- representation,
- representative,
- reprint,
- reproduction,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- rip-off,
- round,
- royal flush,
- rubber,
- ruff,
- runt,
- sample,
- satellite,
- scarecrow,
- scrub,
- sculpture,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-styled,
- servant,
- setting,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- shrimp,
- sign,
- simpleton,
- simulacrum,
- simulated,
- simulation,
- singleton,
- slave,
- slug,
- small fry,
- small potato,
- small potatoes,
- snowman,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spades,
- spare,
- spares,
- spurious,
- squirt,
- squit,
- stand-in,
- statuary,
- statue,
- statuette,
- stooge,
- stopgap,
- straight,
- stupid,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- supposititious,
- surrogate,
- swindle,
- sycophant,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- synthetic,
- tentative,
- thickwit,
- thing of naught,
- third string,
- thug,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- token,
- tool,
- toy,
- travesty,
- trey,
- trick,
- trifle,
- trump,
- twisted,
- typesetting,
- typesetting machine,
- unauthentic,
- understudy,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- utility,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vehicle,
- version,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vicarious,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent,
- votary,
- warped,
- wax figure,
- waxwork,
- whiffet,
- whippersnapper,
- whited sepulcher,
- witling,
- wood carving,
- wood model,
- yes-man,
- zero