dumb
/dʌm/
adjective
- 1
Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
“His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.”
- 2
Silent; unaccompanied by words.
“dumb show”
- 3
(especially of a person) Extremely stupid.
“You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast!”
- 4
Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
“Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.”
- 5
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
verb
- 1
To silence.
- 2
To make stupid.
- 3
To represent as stupid.
- 4
To reduce the intellectual demands of.
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