What is dumb?

  • (adj): Lacking the power of human speech.
    Example: "Dumb animals"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on dumb:

List Of Regular Mini-sections In Private Eye - Dumb Britain
... Occasionally, Dumb America, Dumb Ireland, Dumb Australia and other countries are also featured ...
Coates Law Of Maturity - Factors and Influences - Dumb Phase
... the course of aging a wine may slip into a "dumb phase" where its aromas and flavors are very muted ... The cause or length of time that this "dumb phase" will last is not yet fully understood and seems to vary from bottle to bottle ...
Stereotypes Of White People - Stereotypes - Intra- White Stereotypes
... The dumb blonde is a popular-culture derogatory stereotype applied to blonde-haired women ... The archetypical "dumb blonde," while viewed as attractive and popular, has been portrayed as very promiscuous, as well as lacking in both common street-sense and academic ... The dumb blonde stereotype is used in 'blonde jokes.' ...
Dumb Pipe
... With regard to a mobile network operator (MNO, or operator), the term dumb pipe refers to an operator’s network being used simply to transfer bytes between the customer ... The use of the term “dumb” refers to the inability of the operator to restrict services and applications to its own portal and primarily just provide ... commonly understood operational models for a MNO are the dumb pipe, the smart pipe, and the walled garden ...
Cristyle - Production and Writing Discography
... I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" Side Effects Heat E=MC² 2008 Chilli "Dumb Dumb Dumb" Bi-Polar 2008 Natasha Bedingfield "Angel" Pocketful of Sunshine 2008 ...

More definitions of "dumb":

  • (adj): Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.
    Example: "Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"
    Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow
  • (adj): Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness.
    Synonyms: mute, silent
  • (adj): Unable to speak temporarily.
    Example: "Struck dumb"
    Synonyms: speechless

Famous quotes containing the word dumb:

    “O let my books be then the eloquence
    And dumb presagers of my speaking breast.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “And I am dumb to tell the lover’s tomb
    How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)