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Today, most of the time someone or something is described as dumb when it shows a lack of thought, like your dumb idea of wearing flip flops in a snowstorm.

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Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.

Adjective S.
unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Adjective S.
lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"

Adjective S.
unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

Adjective S.
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials mak

a.
Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.

a.
Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.

a.
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.

v. t.
To put to silence.

Dumb

Dumb , a. [AS. dumb; akin to D. dom stupid, dumb, Sw. dumb, Goth. dumbs; cf. Gr. blind. See Deaf, and cf. Dummy.] 1. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.
2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
To pierce into the dumb past.
3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.]
Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. -- Dumb ague, ∨ Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined "chill." [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a "speaking animal." -- Dumb cake, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell. -- Dumb cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and noise." Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. -- To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech. Syn. -- Silent; speechless; noiseless. See Mute.

Dumb

Dumb, v. t. To put to silence. [Obs.] Shak.

Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.

To put to silence.

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Usage Examples

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

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Other Usage Examples

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.