Word Finder - dumb

definition

Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").

example

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

synonyms

• dumbstruck
• mute
• speechless
• wordless

definition

Silent; unaccompanied by words.

example

dumb show

definition

(especially of a person) Extremely stupid.

example

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

synonyms

• feeble-minded
• idiotic
• moronic
• stupid

definition

Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

example

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

synonyms

• banal
• brainless
• dopey
• ridiculous
• silly
• stupid
• vulgar

definition

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.

You can play dumb because it's the truth.

I started thinking maybe I wasn't so dumb after all.

I played dumb but I don't think he's satisfied with all my answers.

Am I speaking simply enough, Dusty, or do I need to dumb it down more?

Besides, she knows how dumb I am.

Don't be so dumb.

Sure, they made a dumb mistake, but it's not the end of the world.

Dumb doesn't get you all that stuff.

Dean's suggestion about a public Internet connection a block away on Main Street was met with a dumb stare.

I see you've had in-depth conversations with my stepsons, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee—and their lovely wives!

Did I dumb it down enough for you?

It was kind of a dumb thing for ol' Jeff to do, wasn't it?

If I do not succeed they resort to dumb show.

Biennial appropriations are made for the support of the deaf and dumb, the blind and imbecile children at various institutions in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

On the afternoon of that eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumb, expectant.

They are going to send me some money for a poor little deaf and dumb and blind child.

I played dumb but I figured my phone lines were tapped and big brother had his eye on me twenty-four, seven.

It'd be kinda nice to just think about fishing and TV and not having to wonder what suit is all over my ass because of some dumb new rule.

Some of the guys figure a dumb trick like a midnight swim ain't so surprising for a Yankee with a snoot full.

No one at the station is dumb enough to give out any infor­mation on personnel.

There are a deaf and dumb institution at Danville (1823), an institution for the blind at Louisville (1842), and an institution for the education of feeble-minded children at Frankfort (1860).

There are also two naval academies, asylums for the deaf and dumb, and numerous charitable institutions.

Homer, he said, was dumb to him, while he was deaf to Homer; and he could only approach the Iliad in Boccaccio's rude Latin version.

His eldest son Alessandro being deaf and dumb, the succession devolved on his second son Odoardo (1612-1646), who fought on the French side in the war against Spain.

A ' dumb end ' allows different heads to be fitted, simply by loosening a socket screw.

It seems strange to us that they are not stricken dumb by the new and awful solemnity of their position.

Anna Faris gives a hilarious take on the dumb American film starlet abroad.

Using remote dumb terminals, while good for light use, have their drawbacks.

Then again I'd never seen any other vamps dumb enough to be slogging up bleeding huge mountains.

Today, we discover things like "Wellbutrin helps people stop smoking" through chance and dumb luck.

But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the princess' hair.

Her intent was obvious, but Cynthia decided to play dumb.

That Donnie—he's not dumb.

She shook her head, playing dumb.

An institute for the deaf and dumb and blind was opened at Raleigh in 1845, and another for the deaf and dumb at Morganton in 1894; by a law of 1907 every deaf child.

Charitable institutions include a deaf and dumb asylum (1875-1886), the Metropolitan infirmary for children (1841), and the royal sea-bathing infirmary, established in 1791 and enlarged through the munificence of Sir Erasmus Wilson in 1882.

The town has two Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a gymnasium, a cadet academy and a deaf and dumb asylum.

The return air from fiery workings is never allowed to approach the furnace, but is carried into the upcast by a special channel, called a dumb drift, some distance above the furnace drift, so as not to come in contact with the products of combustion until they have been cooled below the igniting point of fire-damp. Where the upcast pit is used for drawing coal, it is usual to discharge the smoke and gases through a short lateral drift near the surface into a tall chimney, so as to keep the pit-top as clear as possible for working.

The number of aliens, of the deaf and dumb and the blind were also gathered.

An institution for the maintenance and education of children born deaf and dumb is maintained at Claremont, near Glasnevin (1816).

More than eighty churches, many of them of architectural value, are found scattered over the city, while the General Hospital, Women's Home, Children's Home, Children's Aid Shelter and Deaf and Dumb Institute speak of the benevolence of the citizens.

The government also maintains an institute for the deaf and dumb at Belleville and for the blind at Brantford.

The Western Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb (1876), in Edgewood Park, is in part maintained by the state.

Among others may be mentioned hospitals for the sick, the aged, the infirm, the blind, the deaf, the dumb, the insane, and homes for widows, orphans, foundlings and sailors.

A legend of a later age tells how, just before his death, he was struck dumb for preventing the preaching of the word of God.

Charities, &c. - The charitable and penal institutions of the state consist of the Central Hospital for the Insane near Nashville; the Eastern Hospital for the Insane near Knoxville; the Western Hospital for the Insane near Bolivar; the Tennessee School for the blind at Nashville; the Tennessee Deaf and Dumb School at Knoxville; the Confederate Soldiers' Home near Nashville, on the " Hermitage," the estate formerly belonging to Andrew Jackson; and the Penitentiary and the Tennessee Industrial School, both at Nashville; and in 1907 the legislature passed an Act for the establishment in Davidson county of the Tennessee Reformatory for boys.

The Schools for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb are each managed by a board of trustees, vacancies in which are filled by the remaining trustees with the concurrence of the legislature.

I was just pissed that some kids were messing around the mine— pulling that dumb stunt with the bones and all.

I see you've had in-depth conversations with my stepsons, Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee—and their lovely wives!

Deceased complained of dumb ague, but witness had never been able to detect any positive disease.