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Dumb

adjective
1.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.  Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow.  "Never met anyone quite so dim" , "Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick" , "Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions" , "He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse" , "Worked with the slow students"
2.
Temporarily incapable of speaking.  Synonym: speechless.  "Speechless with shock"
3.
Lacking the power of human speech.
4.
Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness.  Synonyms: mute, silent.



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"Dumb" Quotes from Famous Books



... The dumb cry of his remorse, his despair, must have struck back to where she still stood, her hands on her bosom, staring at him ...
— The Magnificent Adventure - Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and - the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman • Emerson Hough

... was sitting beside him, slowly drawing her fingers through his thick masses of snow-white hair in the way he liked best, when he looked suddenly right into her eyes with his own strangely similar ones, deep, earnest eyes, full now of a sort of dumb yearning. ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall

... Any terminal with an addressable cursor; the opposite of a {glass tty}. Today, a terminal with merely an addressable cursor, but with none of the more-powerful features mentioned in sense 1, is called a {dumb terminal}. ...
— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10

... last of all ZOON follows. Exeunt all the Princes. Sounds as of rough protest heard from the workers off. The grim brown heads of two or three peer round the door by which the Princes entered. Many come on, dumb, puzzled, turning their brown heads, searching. At last they cluster ...
— Plays of Near & Far • Lord Dunsany

... is a touching simplicity in this union of the artist and his labours, made in these instances all the more impressive by its utter want of pretension. There is no affectation—no studied artistic or classical portraying; we have simply the man and his work before us, appealing by their dumb native eloquence to that homage and love, which are their due by their ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt


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