Meaning of dumb in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• 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.

• Silent; unaccompanied by words.

  Example: dumb show

• (especially of a person) Extremely stupid.

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

• Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

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

• Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.

verb

• To silence.

• To make stupid.

• To represent as stupid.

• To reduce the intellectual demands of.