Meaning

11 senses
  1. (dated)Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.

    deaf, dumb, and blind

    His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.

    lacking the power of human speech

  2. (dated)Having no input or voice in running things.

  3. (dated, usually)Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless.

    dumb show

  4. (dated)Not producing any sound, silent.

  5. (derogatory, especially, informal)Stupid.

    You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast!

    dumm, idiotisch

    тупо́йtupój, глу́пыйglúpyj, дурно́йdurnój

  6. (figuratively)Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

    This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!

    Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.

    sinnlos, dümmlich, dumm

    бессмы́сленныйbessmýslennyj

    slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

  7. Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.

  8. Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.

  9. (dated)An intensifier expressing contempt; damn, damned.

  10. (archaic)Not talkative; taciturn or unwilling to speak.

  11. (obsolete, rare)Lacking brightness or clearness as a colour; dim, dull.

Examples

371 sentences
  1. It was just a dumb mistake.

    Це була лише ідіотська помилка.

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  2. How can people be so dumb?

    Як люби можуть бути такими дурними?

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  3. Tom is always asking dumb questions.

    Том завжди ставить ідіотські запитання.

    deTom stellt immer blöde Fragen.

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  4. Tom is pretty dumb, isn't he?

    Том доволі тупий, еге ж?

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  5. Tom is pretty dumb.

    Том доволі тупий.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
stupid:
pointless or unintellectual:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
stupid:
pointless or unintellectual:

Origin

From Middle English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from Old English dumb

From Middle English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from Old English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).

A minced oath of damn.

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Forms

dumber/more dumb, dumbest/most dumb
Comparativedumber / more dumb Lesson
Superlativedumbest / most dumb Lesson

regular

Synonyms

136 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

69 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • a dumb question
  • the dumbest thing
  • dumb question
  • dumbest thing
  • play dumb
  • was a dumb
  • really dumb

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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