Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
- 2adjective
Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
- 3adjective
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
- 4transitive verb
To put to silence.
- 5adjective
unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- 6adjective
lacking the power of human speech
"dumb animals"
- 7adjective
temporarily incapable of speaking
"struck dumb"
"speechless with shock"
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- 8adjective
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"
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