Antonyms for dumbdumb

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. dumb

   Dumb, mute, silent and speechless refer to fact or state; taciturn refers to habit and disposition. The talkative person may be stricken dumb with surprise or terror; the obstinate may remain mute; one may be silent through preoccupation of mind or of set purpose; but the taciturn person is averse to the utterance of thought or feeling and to communication with others, either from natural disposition or for the occasion. One who is silent does not speak at all; one who is taciturn speaks when compelled, but in a grudging way that repels further approach. Reserved suggests more of method and intention than taciturn, applying often to some special time or topic; one who is communicative regarding all else may be reserved about his business. Reserved is thus closely equivalent to uncommunicative, but is a somewhat stronger word, often suggesting pride or haughtiness, as when we say one is reserved toward inferiors. Compare PRIDE.

   Antonyms:
   communicative, free, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, unreserved

   Synonyms:
   close, mute, reserved, reticent, silent, speechless, taciturn, uncommunicative

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dumb

   Antonyms:
   clatter, tumult, uproar

   Synonyms:
   inarticulate, mute, silent, still

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slowadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   smart, articulate

   Synonyms:
   vague, ho-hum, muted, sluggish, subdued, deadening, faint, mute, slow, thudding, boring, dense, irksome, black, silent, wispy, heavy, dim, purblind, muffled, tedious, impenetrable, dull, dimmed, speechless, shadowy, tiresome, softened, bleak, thick, wearisome, obtuse, leaden

2. speechless, dumbadjective

   temporarily incapable of speaking

   "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

   Antonyms:
   articulate, smart

   Synonyms:
   mute, dull, obtuse, silent, dense, dim, speechless, slow

3. dumbadjective

   lacking the power of human speech

   "dumb animals"

   Antonyms:
   articulate, smart

   Synonyms:
   mute, dull, obtuse, silent, dense, dim, speechless, slow

4. dumb, mute, silentadjective

   unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

   Antonyms:
   smart, articulate

   Synonyms:
   unspoken, understood, dull, dim, tacit, mute, dense, tongueless, unsounded, soundless, speechless, still, slow, silent, mum, obtuse, wordless

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dumbadjective

   Synonyms:
   mute, speechless, pantomimic

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brainy

   Submitted by anonymous on October 26, 2020  

2. declanadjective

   if you call someone declan your calling them dumb

   big bumb

   Submitted by Dumbbum23 on October 21, 2021  

How to use dumb in a sentence?

1. John Kennedy:

   Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach him, i dont mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb.

2. Harry Sarfo:

   For America and Canada, it’s much easier for them to get them over the social network, because they say the Americans are dumb – they have open gun policies, they say ‘We can radicalize them easily, and if they have no prior record, they can buy guns, so we don’t need to have no contact man who has to provide guns for them.’.

3. Lori Day:

   The shaming and the anger and the 'you're dumb' kind of stuff that people are doing isn't working, i think it is making people dig in more and it seems to me what has to happen is a different type of dialogue that is a little bit more empathetic and more listening and more saying, 'I understand how you feel and that this is scary.'.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   Why over her political career has Wall Street been a major, the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? Maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so, i have never heard a candidate, never, who has received huge amounts of money from oil, from coal, from Wall Street from the military industrial complex, not one candidate -- 'Oh these, these campaign contributions will not influence me.' But why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something, everybody knows that.

5. John Paul:

   I feel dumb... I’m not surprised that men are bad but… I didn’t know about Louis C.K., i didn’t even know about Cosby! And that’s dumb.

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