dumb

About 4.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.

   deaf, dumb, and blind

2. adjective Not talkative; taciturn or unwilling to speak.
3. adjective Having no input or voice in running things.
4. adjective Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless.

   dumb show

5. adjective Not producing any sound, silent.
6. adjective Stupid.

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

7. adjective Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

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

8. adjective Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.

Similar words

speechless mute dull inarticulate silent unarticulate stupid slow dim dense

Often followed by

and with to as show animals enough in man

Word family

dumbed dumber dumbest dumbing dumbly dumbness dumbnesses dumbs