Definition of dumb

"dumb" in the adjective sense

1. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow

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"

2. speechless, dumb

temporarily incapable of speaking

"struck dumb"

"speechless with shock"

3. dumb

lacking the power of human speech

"dumb animals"

4. dumb, mute, silent

unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

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Quotations for dumb

Dumb folks get no land. [ Proverb ]

A dumb man never gets land. [ Proverb ]

Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing. [ Lowell ]

Admiration praises; love is dumb. [ Börne ]

Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured. [ Lamb ]

On their own merits modest men are dumb. [ George Colman ]

O let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. [ Browning ]

Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous. [ German Proverb ]

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals. [ Tacitus ]

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. [ Hannah More ]

All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being ever resigned;
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? [ Gray ]

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind,
More than quick words do move a woman's mind. [ Two Gent. of Ver ]

The word is free, action dumb, obedience blind. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Passions are likened best to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. [ Quarles ]

His words seem'd oracles
That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn
And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face,
That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him.
You could have heard
The beating of your pulses while he spoke. [ George Croly ]

Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb. [ Seneca ]

A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive. [ Aughey ]

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]

Books are a sort of dumb teachers; they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts. [ J. Watts ]

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. [ Stedman ]

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

To have the tongue cut out, and to be seated deaf and dumb in a corner, were preferable to his condition who cannot govern his tongue. [ Sadi ]

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian darkness. [ Bartholin ]

Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there! [ Richter ]

Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops. [ John Ruskin ]

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men - their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. [ Samuel Smiles ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

dumb in Scrabble®

The word dumb is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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dumb in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters dumb:

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Words within the letters of dumb

2 letter words in dumb (1 word)

3 letter words in dumb (4 words)

4 letter words in dumb (1 word)

dumb + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving dumb

Shorter words in dumb

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Longer words containing dumb

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adumbrate adumbrates

adumbrating

adumbration adumbrations

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dumbfound dumbfounded

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dumbfound dumbfounding dumbfoundingness

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dumbing

dumbledore dumbledores

dumbly

dumbness

dumbs dumbstricken

dumbs dumbstruck

dumbwaiter dumbwaiters