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dumb    音标拼音: [d'ʌm]
a. 哑的,哑巴的,无声的,沉默的

哑的,哑巴的,无声的,沈默的

dumb
基本型

dumb
adj 1: 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"
[synonym: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb}, {obtuse}, {slow}]
2: temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless
with shock" [synonym: {speechless}, {dumb}]
3: lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"
4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [synonym: {dumb},
{mute}, {silent}]

Dumb \Dumb\, v. t.
To put to silence. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster] dumbbell


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.
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To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.
--Hooker.
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2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not
accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
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This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. --Shak.
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To pierce into the dumb past. -- J. C.
Shairp.
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3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.]
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Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
--De Foe.
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{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}.
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191 Moby Thesaurus words for "dumb":
Boeotian, 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,
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

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  • DUMB Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    stupid, dull, dense, crass, dumb mean lacking in power to absorb ideas or impressions stupid implies a slow-witted or dazed state of mind that may be either congenital or temporary
  • DUMB Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    DUMB definition: lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted See examples of dumb used in a sentence
  • DUMB | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    Don’t say anything – just act play dumb (= pretend to be stupid or not to know something)
  • DUMB definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
    If someone is dumb on a particular occasion, they cannot speak because they are angry, shocked, or surprised
  • Dumb - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    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
  • Dumb - definition of dumb by The Free Dictionary
    dumb (dʌm) adj -er, -est, v usage: dumb in the sense “lacking the power of speech” is offensive when applied to humans (but not animals), probably because the word also means “stupid; dull-witted ”
  • dumb - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid synonyms, antonyms Synonyms: feeble-minded, idiotic, moronic, stupid; see also Thesaurus: stupid Antonyms: intelligent, smart You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast!
  • Dumb Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
    I'm not dumb enough to believe that It was a dumb idea in the first place He just stood there with a dumb grin on his face This is one of the dumbest TV shows I've ever seen She played acted dumb [=pretended to know or understand less than she really did] so we would assign her the easier tasks It was dumb luck that we found this place at all
  • DUMB Synonyms Antonyms - 77 words | Thesaurus. com
    Find 77 different ways to say DUMB, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus com
  • Trumps Dumb New Claim Has Everyone Baffled - HuffPost
    President Donald Trump over the weekend claimed that most people don’t know how to spell a basic word as he explained his latest insult “I take the ‘b’ off because most people don’t know that dumb ends with a ‘b’ but most people don’t know,” the president insisted as he shared why





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