dumb
Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
Adjective 4 meanings
Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
“deaf, dumb, and blind”
Having no input or voice in running things.
Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless.
Not producing any sound, silent.
Verb 4 meanings
To silence.
To make stupid.
To represent as stupid.
To reduce the intellectual demands of.
Adverb 1 meaning
Very, extremely.
Etymology
From Middle English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from Old English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
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DUMB at a glance
DUMB has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (D 2 + U 1 + M 3 + B 3) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,729 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with dumb
All rhymes- THUMB12
- NUMB8
- SUCCUMB15
- CRUMB11
- PLUMB11
- BREADCRUMB19
- RHUMB12
- UNPLUMB13
- BENUMB12
- BEDUMB13
- BETHUMB16
- REPLUMB13
One letter away
- DUMP9
- NUMB8
- DUMA7
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