dumb
adjective
uk/dʌm/us/dʌm/dumbadjective(SILENT)
C1old-fashionedoffensive
unabletospeak:
Children like this used to bedescribedas "deafand dumb".
temporarilyunabletospeak, forexamplebecause you are verysurprisedorshocked:
She wasstruckdumb by what she hadseen.她被自己看到的惊得说不出话来。
Falling silent and not speaking
- be (on) non-speakersidiom
- bite
- bitesomethingback
- button your lipidiom
- clam
- clam up
- draw
- gob
- have nothing to say foryourselfidiom
- mouth
- speak
- speechless
- speechlessly
- speechlessness
- stick
- stick insomeone'sthroatidiom
- tongue-tied
- unavowed
- unmentioned
- wordless
dumbadjective(STUPID)
B2mainlyUSinformal
stupid:
愚蠢的Are theybraveor just dumb?他们是勇敢还是愚蠢而已？
What a dumbidea!这想法太蠢了！
stupid
- stupidSome people are too stupid to realize what's bad for them.
- foolishShe was really foolish to quit her job like that.
- sillyIt was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.
- crazyYou'd be absolutely crazy to marry that man.
- dumbUSShe was terrified of asking dumb questions.
Stupid and silly
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdly
- adolescent
- againstyourbetter judgmentidiom
- dizzily
- dopey
- dorky
- dottiness
- dotty
- impolitic
- imprudent
- inhis/her/theirwisdomidiom
- insomeone'sinfinite wisdomidiom
- inadvisable
- uncritically
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unreasonably
- unwise
dumbadjective(DEVICE)
A dumbdevicecannotconnectto theinternet, or cannotoperateindependentlyusingcomputertechnology:
Radioreceiverswere dumbdevices-coppercoils,essentially.
Thekitturnsa dumbbombinto asmartbombbyattachingaGPSsystem.
See also
dumbphone
dumb terminal
Opposite
smart
- Thereasonthatplaindial-upmodemsaren'taffectedis because they arebasically"dumb"devices.
- We have transitioned fromso-calleddumbphoneswhich just usevoiceandtextto morepowerfulsmartphones.
- Theintelligentdockingsystemalsoprovidesa dumbmode/smartmodeoption.
- You need afunctionalelectricalgrid, whether it'ssmartor dumb.
Computer concepts
- 3-D printing
- adaptive learning
- additive manufacturing
- addy
- aeroplane mode
- backup
- capture
- computing
- configuration
- information age
- information security
- information superhighway
- infosec
- internet
- scan
- transcoding
- Trojan horse
- tuple
- Turing Machine
- Turing test