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dumbness

/duhm/US // dʌm //UK // (dʌm) //

哑巴,愚蠢的人,哑巴亏,哑铃

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    dumb·er, dumb·est.

    • : lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
    • : lacking the power of speech: a dumb animal.
    • : temporarily unable to speak: dumb with astonishment.
    • : refraining from any or much speech; silent.
    • : made, done, etc., without speech.
    • : lacking some usual property, characteristic, etc.
    • : performed in pantomime; mimed.
    • : Computers. pertaining to the inability to do processing locally: A dumb terminal can input, output, and display data, but cannot process it.Compare intelligent.
    • : Nautical. without means of propulsion. without means of propulsion, steering, or signaling.
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    • : dumb down, Informal. to make or become less intellectual, simpler, or less sophisticated: to dumb down a textbook; American movies have dumbed down.

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Examples

  • I will not take these dumb boots off and watch my feet swell until they look like novelty slippers.

  • Still snuggled in your warm bed, you’ll have no reason to reflect that reclining seats are the dumbest airline invention since middle seats.

  • While that was a hyper-aggressive play call by defensive coordinator Gregg Williams — and a dumb one, since it put single coverage on the only deep weapon the Raiders really have in Henry Ruggs — they played well enough to win all game.

  • It would have blown my mind—and sounded like the dumbest idea ever.

  • Most ideas are dumb, and we and everyone else have every right to point that out.

  • This is not dumbness, or denseness, or illiteracy, but belligerent unenlightenment.

  • Not to be outdone in collective dumbness, the smart people at Daimler had paid $36 billion for Chrysler in 1998.

  • In absolute dumbness Stanton and Cornelia sat listening until the horrid sound died away.

  • At Oxford Circus they got out, and left me pondering on deafness and dumbness.

  • This dumbness does not mean that his mouth was silent and did not utter a word, for he prophesied in chapters xxv-xxxii.

  • He knew so well, how many thousands of times had he seen, that same look of questioning, pitiful in its dumbness.

  • The stealing out had been fun, but with the freedom of the tops the sense of conspiracy ceased, and gave place to dumbness.