Found 4 items, similar to dumb.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: dumb
bodoh
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: dumb
bebal, bisu, bodoh, gagu, gendeng, goblok
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dumb
dumb
adj 1: 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 make some really
dumb decisions”;
“he was either normally stupid or
being deliberately obtuse”;
“worked with the slow
students” [syn:
dense,
dim,
dull,
obtuse,
slow]
2: unable to speak temporarily;
“struck dumb”;
“speechless with
shock” [syn:
speechless]
3: lacking the power of human speech;
“dumb animals”
4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn:
mute,
silent]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dumb
Dumb
\Dumb\, v. t.
To put to silence. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.
--Hooker.
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2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not
accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
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This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. --Shak.
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To pierce into the dumb past. -- J. C.
Shairp.
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3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.]
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Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
--De Foe.
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Deaf and dumb. See
Deaf-mute.
Dumb ague, or
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.
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