Usually means: Lacking intelligence or good judgment.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dumb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dumb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dumb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dumb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dumb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dumb, dumb: Wordnik
  7. dumb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dumb: Wiktionary
  9. dumb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dumb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dumb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dumb, dumb: Dictionary.com
  13. dumb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dumb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dumb (Faith Evans song), Dumb (Jazmine Sullivan song), Dumb (Nirvana song), Dumb (Tich song), Dumb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dumb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dumb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dumb: Rhymezone
  19. dumb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dumb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dumb: Free Dictionary
  22. dumb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dumb: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Dumb (disambiguation), dumb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dumb (disambiguation), dumb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dumb (disambiguation), dumb: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DUMB: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. dumb: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dumb: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. D.U.M.B, The Dumb, dumb: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dumber as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
adjective:  (archaic) Not talkative; taciturn or unwilling to speak.
adjective:  (dated) Having no input or voice in running things.
adjective:  (dated, of things, actions, etc.) Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless.
adjective:  (dated) Not producing any sound, silent.
adjective:  (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.
adjective:  (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
adjective:  Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
adjective:  (of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.
adjective:  (obsolete, rare) Lacking brightness or clearness as a colour; dim, dull.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To silence.
verb:  (transitive) To make stupid.
verb:  (transitive) To represent as stupid.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.
adverb:  (African-American Vernacular) Very, extremely.
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular, dated) An intensifier expressing contempt; damn, damned.

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