dumb

dumb is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
2. adjective. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
3. adjective. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
4. transitive verb. To put to silence.
5. adjective. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

   Synonyms: mute, silent

6. adjective. lacking the power of human speech

   "dumb animals"

7. adjective. temporarily incapable of speaking

   "struck dumb"

   "speechless with shock"

   Synonyms: speechless

8. adjective. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity- Thackeray

   "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"

   "never met anyone quite so dim"

   Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow

Synonyms

mute, silent, speechless, dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow

Common word forms

dumbs, dumbed, dumber, dumbly, dumbest, dumbing, dumbness

Words from these letters

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