What does the word dumb mean?

    Part of speech: noun

  • Dumbness.

  • Part of speech: adverb

  • Dumbly.

  • Part of speech: adjective

  • Lacking the power of speech; mute; silent.

Usage examples for dumb

  1. Believe me, we might henceforth be dumb to each other, and, meeting again after many a day, we should feel as if we had all along been walking hand in hand." – The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown
  2. Well, cook, were you born dumb? – Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
  3. It is possible that he is deaf and dumb. – The Green Flag by Arthur Conan Doyle
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