dumm

Meaning

dumb, stupid

Concepts

stupid

foolish

dumb

dull

silly

useless

ignorant

asinine

addled

gormless

absurd

slow

inane

sheepish

stupidly

thumb

oafish

ridiculous

thick

fatuous

idiotic

blockheaded

dully

purblindly

asininely

frivolous

Troy

good-for-nothing

trivial

worthless

childish

easy

guileless

trifling

irritating

dull-brained

painful

zany

dummy

idiot

ludicrous

simper

silent

dim

brute

moron

witless

annoying

clown

harlequinesque

screwball

wacky

airheaded

brainless

dull-minded

shit-for-brains

sottish

Boeotian

anserine

boobish

chowderheaded

clottish

cockamamie

cockamamy

duncelike

dunderheaded

goony

hen-witted

insensate

insipient

lamebrained

lunkish

melon-headed

meshuga

nutty as a fruitcake

oxlike

rattlebrained

sawney

twatty

twp

unwise

wisdomless

imbecilic

brainlessly

lacking

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʊm/

Etymology

From Middle High German tump, from Old High German tumb, from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.
The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German dumb, dumm, from Old Saxon dumb). The rare literary variant tumb is a poetic archaism directly borrowed from Middle High German; the expected form of this source is early modern German tumm (now obsolete).