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dumb 音标拼音: [d'ʌm] a. 哑的,哑巴的,无声的,沉默的 哑的,哑巴的,无声的,沈默的 dumb基本型 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" [ synonym: { dense}, { dim}, { dull}, { dumb}, { obtuse}, { slow}] 2: temporarily incapable of speaking; " struck dumb"; " speechless with shock" [ synonym: { speechless}, { dumb}] 3: lacking the power of human speech; " dumb animals" 4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [ synonym: { dumb}, { mute}, { silent}] Dumb \ Dumb\, v. t. To put to silence. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] dumbbell
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. [ 1913 Webster] To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show. [ 1913 Webster] This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] To pierce into the dumb past. -- J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. -- De Foe. [ 1913 Webster] { 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 191 Moby Thesaurus words for " dumb": Boeotian, abiotic, anaudic, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, aphasic, aphonic, apish, asinine, awkward, azoic, batty, beastlike, beastly, beef- brained, beef- witted, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bestial, blankminded, blockheaded, blockish, bovine, brainless, breathless, brief, brusque, brutal, brute, brutelike, brutish, buffoonish, callow, chumpish, cloddish, close, close- tongued, closemouthed, cockeyed, concise, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, curt, daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dizzy, doltish, doting, dull, dullard, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, duncical, duncish, economical of words, empty, empty- headed, exanimate, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gauche, goofy, green, groping, gross, gulled, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, inane, inanimate, inanimated, inarticulate, incoherent, indisposed to talk, indistinct, ineducable, inept, inert, inexperienced, infatuated, innocent, insane, insensate, insensible, insentient, instinctive, instinctual, klutzy, know- nothing, kooky, laconic, lifeless, loony, lumpish, mad, maudlin, maundering, mindless, moronic, mum, mute, naive, nescient, nonconscious, nonliving, nonrational, numskulled, nutty, oafish, opaque, quiet, raw, reticent, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, short, silent, silly, simple, snug, sottish, soulless, sparing of words, speechless, strange to, stricken dumb, stupid, subhuman, taciturn, tentative, terse, thick, thick- witted, thoughtless, tight- lipped, tongue- tied, tongueless, unacquainted, unanimated, unapprized, uncommunicative, uncomprehending, unconscious, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unfeeling, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent, unknowing, unloquacious, unposted, unripe, unsure, untalkative, unteachable, unversed, vacuous, voiceless, wacky, wet, witless, word- bound, wordless, wrongheaded, zoic, zooidal, zoologic |
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