dumb

Senso (English)

Adj

1. Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
2. Not talkative; taciturn or unwilling to speak.
3. Having no input or voice in running things.
4. Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless.
5. Not producing any sound, silent.
6. (informal) Stupid.
7. Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
8. Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
9. Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.
10. (obsolete) Lacking brightness or clearness as a colour; dim, dull.

Verb

1. To silence.
2. To make stupid.
3. To represent as stupid.
4. To reduce the intellectual demands of.

Adv

Very, extremely.

Synonyms

stupid

mute

🔇

foolish

silent

🔇

speechless

silly

unable to speak

dull

slow

deaf

idiot

fool

idiotic

dim

slow-witted

useless

obtuse

dense

taciturn

thick

unintelligent

unthinking

moronic

brainless

dopey

inane

imbecilic

meek

tongue-tied

dim-witted

mad

dizzy

💫

humble

gormless

crazy

lowly

lunkhead

madcap

meaningless

mentally retarded

mild

moron

nitwitted

obsolete

old-fashioned

poky

reckless

shallow

sheepish

silenced

sottish

stuttered

thickheaded

thirsty

tight-lipped

tongueless

uncommunicative

unfunny

unlettered

unreasonable

unwarranted

unwitting

vacuous

voiceless

walk-on

weak-headed

wordless

zany

airheaded

become mad

dull-minded

goofy

untalkative

ignorant person

birdbrained

be dumb

dead from the neck up

sap head

shit-for-brains

addled

mute

🔇

anachronistic

anserine

asinine

ass

🍑

be

be quiet

bigoted

blind

brutish

close-mouthed

clueless

crass

cretinous

dazed

dime

dopy

dull-witted

dumbbell

dumb terminal

fatuous

featherbrained

gawky

goon

humorous

idiocy

ignorant

imbecile

imperceptive

inactive

inept

insane

irascible

irrational

loony

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dʌm/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: dumb

Inherited from inglese antico: dumb

Cognate with scozzese: dumb

Cognate with frisone settentrionale: dom

Cognate with frisone occidentale: dom

Cognate with olandese: dom

Cognate with tedesco: dumm

Cognate with danese: dum

Cognate with svedese: dum

Cognate with islandese: dumbur

Inherited from inglese medio: dumben

Inherited from inglese antico: dumbian

Cognate with tedesco: verdummen

In summary

From Middle English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from Old English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
The senses of stupid, unintellectual, and pointless, which are found regularly since the 19th century only, probably developed under the influence of German dumm and Dutch dom. Just like the English word, these originally meant "lacking the power of speech", but they developed the mentioned senses early on.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots dumb (“dumb, silent”), North Frisian dom, domme (“dumb, stupid”), West Frisian dom (“dumb, stupid”), Dutch dom (“dumb, stupid”), German dumm (“dumb, stupid”), Danish dum (“stupid”), Swedish dum (“stupid”), Icelandic dumbur (“dumb, mute”). See also deaf.

Frasi

Television can make you dumb , but it can also be good education .

La televisione può farti stupido , ma può anche essere una buona istruzione.