What is another word for dumb?
997 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈʌm], [ dˈʌm], [ d_ˈʌ_m]
The word "dumb" is often considered a derogatory term, which is why it is important to be mindful of other words that can be used in place of it. Some synonyms for "dumb" include "stupid", "foolish", "idiotic", "ludicrous", "dense", "ignorant", "witless" and "senseless". However, it's essential to remember that even some of these words might be potentially offensive to some people, especially if they are used in a demeaning context. It is essential to exercise good judgment and respect when selecting which words to use, particularly when addressing people with disabilities or coming from different cultures.
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Similar words for dumb:
- dim (adjective)
- dizzy (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- dumb (adjective)
- feebleminded (adjective)
- foolish (adjective)
- incoherent (adjective)
- oafish (adjective)
- quiet (adjective)
- silent (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- taciturn (adjective)
- witless (adjective)
- zany (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- aphonic (adjective)
- banal (adjective)
- blockheaded (adjective)
- brainless (adjective)
- dense (adjective)
- dim-witted (adjective)
- doltish (adjective)
- dopey (adjective)
- dumbfounded (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- feeble-minded (adjective)
- half-baked (adjective)
- idiotic (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- incommunicative (adjective)
- inobtrusive (adjective)
- insensate (adjective)
- moronic (adjective)
- obtuse (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- simpleminded (adjective)
- speechless (adjective)
- stolid (adjective)
- stupid (adjective)
- thick-witted (adjective)
- tight-lipped (adjective)
- uncommunicable (adjective)
- unintelligent (adjective)
- vacuous (adjective)
- voiceless (adjective)
- silence (verb)
Synonyms for Dumb:
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adj.
• dim • dizzy- Reeling ,
- blinded ,
- off balance ,
- slap-happy ,
- up set ,
- weak in the knees ,
- weak knees ,
- fainter ,
- hazy ,
- shaky ,
- staggering ,
- tipsy ,
- unsteady ,
- vertiginous ,
- weak-kneed .
- mum ,
- mute ,
- speechless ,
- taciturn ,
- tongue-tied .
- soft in the head ,
- dull witted ,
- dullwitted ,
- half witted ,
- more dull witted ,
- more dull-witted ,
- more dullwitted ,
- most dull witted ,
- most dull-witted ,
- most dullwitted ,
- soft head ,
- soft in head ,
- soft the head .
- absurd ,
- asinine ,
- blithering ,
- bone-headed ,
- chuckle-headed ,
- crackpot ,
- crazy ,
- cretinous ,
- dotty ,
- foolish ,
- goofy ,
- half-witted ,
- idiotic ,
- ignorant ,
- imbecilic ,
- inane ,
- jackass ,
- knuckle-headed ,
- lame-brained ,
- loony ,
- meat-headed ,
- nitwit ,
- nonsensical .
- buttoned up ,
- clammed up ,
- could hear a pin drop ,
- hushful ,
- not saying boo ,
- unspeaking ,
- Quieter ,
- quietest .
- Inconversable ,
- Lulled ,
- Nonvocal ,
- Silentious ,
- closed up ,
- dummied up ,
- hushed ,
- iced ,
- inaudible ,
- noiseless ,
- not talkative ,
- soundless ,
- still ,
- struck dumb ,
- Husher ,
- unheard .
- dumb .
- everyday ,
- in sipid ,
- in-sipid ,
- insipid ,
- more cornball ,
- more cornfed ,
- more noplace ,
- more nothing ,
- more nowhere ,
- more pabulum ,
- more zero ,
- most cornball ,
- most cornfed ,
- most noplace ,
- most nothing ,
- most nowhere ,
- most pabulum ,
- most zero ,
- stereo typed ,
- stereo-typed ,
- stocker ,
- triper ,
- tripest ,
- un imaginative ,
- un original ,
- un-imaginative ,
- un-original ,
- wishy washy ,
- wishy-washy ,
- wishywashy .
- more loggerheaded ,
- more thick skulled ,
- more thick-skulled ,
- more thickskulled ,
- most loggerheaded ,
- most thick skulled ,
- most thick-skulled ,
- most thickskulled ,
- thick skulled .
- dis mayed ,
- dis-mayed ,
- more agape ,
- more amazed ,
- more astonished ,
- more bamboozled ,
- more buffaloed ,
- more dismayed ,
- more flabbergasted ,
- more floored ,
- more knocked ,
- more licked ,
- more nonplused ,
- most agape ,
- most amazed ,
- most astonished ,
- most bamboozled ,
- most buffaloed ,
- most dismayed ,
- most flabbergasted ,
- most floored ,
- most knocked ,
- most licked ,
- most nonplused ,
- over come ,
- over whelmed ,
- over-whelmed ,
- sur prised ,
- sur-prised .
- de void ,
- de-void ,
- dis honest ,
- dis-honest ,
- in effectual ,
- in expressive ,
- in sincere ,
- in sincerer ,
- in sincerest ,
- in-effectual ,
- in-expressive ,
- in-sincere ,
- in-sincerer ,
- in-sincerest ,
- insincere ,
- trivial ,
- un real ,
- un satisfactory ,
- un substantial ,
- un-real ,
- un-satisfactory ,
- un-substantial .
- Sophomoric ,
- half baked ,
- halfbaked ,
- ill conceived ,
- illconceived ,
- in discreet ,
- in-discreet ,
- more boneheaded ,
- more ill conceived ,
- more ill-conceived ,
- more illconceived ,
- most boneheaded ,
- most ill conceived ,
- most ill-conceived ,
- most illconceived ,
- short sighted ,
- un formed ,
- un-formed ,
- under developed ,
- under-developed .
- in sensitive ,
- in-sensitive ,
- more imperceptive ,
- most imperceptive ,
- un comprehending ,
- un-comprehending .
- more clueless ,
- more untutored ,
- most clueless ,
- most untutored ,
- un complicated ,
- un schooled ,
- un studied ,
- un tutored ,
- un worldlier ,
- un worldly ,
- un-complicated ,
- un-schooled ,
- un-studied ,
- un-tutored ,
- un-worldliest ,
- un-worldly ,
- uncomplicated .
- in different ,
- in-active ,
- in-different ,
- more bovine ,
- more unexcitable ,
- most bovine ,
- most unexcitable ,
- stoic ,
- un emotional ,
- un excitable ,
- un-emotional ,
- un-excitable .
- dummier ,
- dummiest ,
- more loser ,
- more thick headed ,
- more thick-headed ,
- most loser ,
- most thick headed ,
- most thick-headed ,
- out lunch ,
- thick headed .
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v.
• silence- chokes off ,
- clams up ,
- cooled it ,
- cooling it ,
- cools it ,
- de aden ,
- de adens ,
- de-aden ,
- de-adens ,
- decreased the volume ,
- decreased volume ,
- decreases the volume ,
- decreases volume ,
- decreasing the volume ,
- decreasing volume ,
- dries up ,
- dummies up ,
- dummying up ,
- held one tongue ,
- held one's tongue ,
- held ones tongue ,
- held tongue ,
- hold one tongue ,
- hold ones tongue ,
- holding one tongue ,
- holding one's tongue ,
- holding ones tongue ,
- holding tongue ,
- holds one tongue ,
- holds one's tongue ,
- holds ones tongue ,
- holds tongue ,
- hush hush ,
- hush hushed ,
- hush hushes ,
- hush hushing ,
- hush mouth ,
- hush one mouth ,
- hush ones mouth ,
- hush-hushed ,
- hush-hushes ,
- hush-hushing ,
- hushed mouth ,
- hushed one mouth ,
- hushed one's mouth ,
- hushed ones mouth ,
- hushes mouth ,
- hushes one mouth ,
- hushes one's mouth ,
- hushes ones mouth ,
- hushhush ,
- hushhushed ,
- hushhushes ,
- hushhushing ,
- hushing mouth ,
- hushing one mouth ,
- hushing one's mouth ,
- hushing ones mouth ,
- keeping down ,
- keeping it down ,
- keeps down ,
- keeps it down ,
- kept it down ,
- over awe ,
- over awed ,
- over awes ,
- over awing ,
- over-awe ,
- over-awed ,
- over-awes ,
- over-awing ,
- piped down ,
- pipes down ,
- piping down ,
- quieting down ,
- quiets down ,
- said nothing ,
- sate on ,
- says nothing ,
- sits on ,
- softpedal ,
- strikes dumb ,
- striking dumb ,
- strook dumb ,
- sub due ,
- sub dues ,
- sub-due ,
- sub-dues ,
- tongue ties ,
- tongue tying ,
- tongue-ties ,
- tongue-tying ,
- tonguetie ,
- tongueties ,
- tonguetying .
Other synonyms:
- Challenged ,
- Developmental Disability ,
- Physically Challenged ,
- aphonic ,
- ataxia ,
- blind ,
- dimwitted ,
- disability ,
- disabled ,
- disablement ,
- handicap ,
- handicapped ,
- impaired ,
- impairment ,
- impediment ,
- invalid ,
- lame ,
- learning disability ,
- learning-disabled ,
- paralysis ,
- paralytic ,
- paralyzed ,
- paraplegic ,
- quadriplegic ,
- special education ,
- special needs ,
- the Paralympics ,
- the Special Olympics ,
- thick-witted ,
- wheelchair .
- accessible .
Other relevant words:
• brainless
• inarticulate
• noun
- Addle-brained ,
- Addle-headed ,
- Addle-pated ,
- Aphonous ,
- Ashame ,
- Beastlike ,
- Beef-witted ,
- Befooled ,
- Chuckleheaded ,
- Close-tongued ,
- Cowish ,
- Crack-brained ,
- Dactylology ,
- Dactylonomy ,
- Daffy ,
- Dull-witted ,
- Dumfound ,
- Dumfounder ,
- Duncical ,
- Duncish ,
- ESN ,
- Fatuitous ,
- Feather-brained ,
- Feather-headed ,
- Feeble-minded ,
- Gulled ,
- Inanimated ,
- Incommunicable ,
- Inobtrusive ,
- Irksome ,
- Muzzled ,
- Noddy ,
- Ox-like ,
- Rattle-brained ,
- Rattle-headed ,
- Soft-headed ,
- Staggered ,
- Unapprized ,
- Unconversable ,
- Unconversant ,
- Weak-minded ,
- Zooidal ,
- abase ,
- abash ,
- ability ,
- abiotic ,
- addled ,
- airheaded ,
- allay ,
- amaze ,
- amazed ,
- anaudic ,
- animal ,
- animalian ,
- animalic ,
- animalistic ,
- anserine ,
- aphasic ,
- apish ,
- appease ,
- askew ,
- assuage ,
- astigmatic ,
- astonish ,
- astonished ,
- astound ,
- astounded ,
- at a loss for words ,
- attocerebral ,
- awkward ,
- azoic ,
- backward ,
- balmy orbarmy ,
- banal ,
- barmy ,
- batty ,
- beast ,
- beastly ,
- beat ,
- beck ,
- beef-brained ,
- beguiled ,
- bemused ,
- besotted ,
- bestial ,
- bewilder ,
- bird-brained ,
- birdbrained ,
- black ,
- blankminded ,
- bleak ,
- blockhead ,
- blockish ,
- boeotian ,
- bonehead ,
- boneheaded ,
- bonkers ,
- boob ,
- booby ,
- boring ,
- bovine ,
- brain dead ,
- breathless ,
- brief ,
- brusque ,
- brutal ,
- brute ,
- brutelike ,
- brutish ,
- bubbleheaded ,
- buffoonish ,
- byplay ,
- calf ,
- callow ,
- chirology ,
- chump ,
- chumpish ,
- city ,
- clew ,
- clod-like ,
- cloddish ,
- close ,
- closemouthed ,
- clot ,
- cluck ,
- clue ,
- clueless ,
- cock-eyed ,
- cockeyed ,
- compact ,
- concise ,
- confound ,
- confuse ,
- confused ,
- conquer ,
- coot ,
- crass ,
- creature ,
- credulous ,
- critter ,
- crush ,
- cuckoo ,
- cue ,
- curt ,
- daft ,
- daze ,
- dazed ,
- dazzle ,
- deadening ,
- deaf-and-dumb person ,
- deafmute ,
- deficient ,
- demented ,
- dense ,
- destroy ,
- dim ,
- dimmed ,
- dimwit ,
- dippy ,
- disgrace ,
- dizzy ,
- dolt ,
- dominic ,
- doodle ,
- dopy ,
- dorky ,
- doting ,
- dozy ,
- drake ,
- dull ,
- dullard ,
- dumbfound ,
- dumbfounded ,
- dumbstricken ,
- dumbstruck ,
- dummy ,
- dunce ,
- dunderheaded ,
- dupe ,
- electrify ,
- empty ,
- empty-headed ,
- erratic ,
- exanimate ,
- exceptional ,
- extinguish ,
- faint ,
- fascinate ,
- fat ,
- fathead ,
- fatheaded ,
- fatuous ,
- featherheaded ,
- featherweight ,
- feebleminded ,
- flabbergast ,
- flaky ,
- fond ,
- fool ,
- foolheaded ,
- freemasonry ,
- fuddled ,
- futile ,
- gag ,
- gaga ,
- gander ,
- gauche ,
- gawk ,
- gesticulation ,
- gesture ,
- glance ,
- glimpse ,
- goof ,
- goosey ,
- gormless ,
- gray ,
- green ,
- grey ,
- groping ,
- gross ,
- half-baked ,
- half-wit ,
- halfwitted ,
- hare-brained ,
- headless ,
- heavy ,
- hint ,
- ho-hum ,
- humble ,
- humiliate ,
- idiot ,
- imbecile ,
- impenetrable ,
- inanimate ,
- incommunicative ,
- indisposed to talk ,
- indistinct ,
- ineducable ,
- inept ,
- inert ,
- inexperienced ,
- infatuated ,
- innocent ,
- insane ,
- insensate ,
- insensible ,
- insentient ,
- instinctive ,
- instinctual ,
- irrational ,
- irresponsible ,
- jerk ,
- jerky ,
- key ,
- klutzy ,
- know-nothing ,
- knuckleheaded ,
- kooky ,
- laconic ,
- lamebrain ,
- lamebrained ,
- laughable ,
- leaden ,
- leer ,
- let down ,
- lifeless ,
- light-headed ,
- living thing ,
- ludicrous ,
- lumpish ,
- lunatic ,
- lunkheaded ,
- mad ,
- maudlin ,
- maundering ,
- meaningless ,
- mentally defective ,
- mindless ,
- moron ,
- mortify ,
- mousy ,
- muddle-headed ,
- muffle ,
- muffled ,
- muted ,
- muzzle ,
- naive ,
- nescient ,
- nincompoop ,
- ninny ,
- nitwitted ,
- nod ,
- non compos mentis ,
- nonconscious ,
- nonliving ,
- nonrational ,
- not sensible ,
- nudge ,
- numbskulled ,
- numskull ,
- nuts ,
- nutty ,
- oaf ,
- oafish ,
- obtuse ,
- opaque ,
- overcome ,
- overpower ,
- overwhelm ,
- pantomime ,
- petrify ,
- pinheaded ,
- potty ,
- preposterous ,
- psyched ,
- purblind ,
- quash ,
- quell ,
- quench ,
- quieten ,
- raw ,
- reckless ,
- reserved ,
- retarded ,
- reticent ,
- rhyme scheme ,
- ridiculous ,
- risible ,
- sap ,
- sappy ,
- scatterbrained ,
- scent ,
- screwball ,
- screwy ,
- senseless ,
- sentimental ,
- set down ,
- settle ,
- shadowy ,
- shocked ,
- short ,
- shrug ,
- shush ,
- simple ,
- simple-minded ,
- simpleminded ,
- slake ,
- slob ,
- slow ,
- slow-witted ,
- sluggish ,
- smother ,
- snub ,
- snug ,
- soft ,
- softened ,
- softheaded ,
- sottish ,
- soulless ,
- squelch ,
- stagger ,
- startle ,
- stolid ,
- strike ,
- strike dumb ,
- strike with awe ,
- stun ,
- stupefy ,
- subdue ,
- subdued ,
- subhuman ,
- subjugate ,
- subnormal ,
- suppress ,
- surprise ,
- surprised ,
- symbolically ,
- tacit ,
- take down ,
- tedious ,
- telegraphy ,
- tentative ,
- terse ,
- thick ,
- thoughtless ,
- thrash ,
- thudding ,
- thunderstruck ,
- tight-lipped ,
- tightlipped ,
- tiresome ,
- tomfool ,
- tongueless ,
- touch ,
- tread down ,
- trounce ,
- unacquainted ,
- unacquainted with ,
- unanimated ,
- unarticulate ,
- unarticulated ,
- uncommunicable ,
- uncommunicative ,
- uncomprehending ,
- unconscious ,
- understood ,
- unenlightened ,
- unfamiliar ,
- unfeeling ,
- unilluminated ,
- unimaginative ,
- uninformed ,
- uninitiated ,
- unintelligent ,
- unknowing ,
- unposted ,
- unreasonable ,
- unresponsive ,
- unripe ,
- unsharpened ,
- unsmart ,
- unsounded ,
- unspoken ,
- unstable ,
- unsure ,
- untalkative ,
- unteachable ,
- unversed ,
- unvocal ,
- vacant ,
- vacuous ,
- vague ,
- vanquish ,
- vapid ,
- vegetable ,
- wacky ,
- warped ,
- weak ,
- wearisome ,
- wet ,
- whist ,
- wight ,
- wild ,
- wink ,
- wispy ,
- witless ,
- woodenheaded ,
- wordless ,
- wrongheaded ,
- zany ,
- zoic ,
- zoological ,
- zoophyte .
- Clammed ,
- Clamming ,
- Dulling ,
- Overawing ,
- choke off ,
- choked off ,
- choking off ,
- clam up ,
- clamming up ,
- close up ,
- closes up ,
- closing up ,
- cool it ,
- decrease the volume ,
- decrease volume ,
- dried up ,
- dry up ,
- drying up ,
- dulls ,
- dumbed ,
- dumbing ,
- dumbs ,
- dummy up ,
- hold one's tongue ,
- hold tongue ,
- hush one's mouth ,
- keep down ,
- keep it down ,
- kept down ,
- overawe ,
- overawed ,
- overawes ,
- pipe down ,
- quiet down ,
- quieted down ,
- say nothing ,
- saying nothing ,
- sit on ,
- sitting on ,
- tongue tie ,
- tongue-tie .
- Anencephalous ,
- Imperceptive ,
- Mentally Handicapped ,
- Thick-headed ,
- anencephalic ,
- blockheaded ,
- blown away ,
- brainless ,
- buffaloed ,
- cliched ,
- cool as cucumber ,
- cornball ,
- cornfed ,
- dim-witted ,
- doltish ,
- dopey ,
- dull as dishwater ,
- emptyheaded ,
- ho hum ,
- ill-conceived ,
- loggerheaded ,
- matter of fact ,
- mentally deficient ,
- mentally slow ,
- moronic ,
- noplace ,
- not intelligent ,
- not talkativ ,
- nowhere ,
- poorly planned ,
- quiet ,
- silent ,
- slumberish ,
- squirrelly ,
- stupid ,
- surd ,
- taken aback ,
- thick-skulled ,
- thickskulled ,
- unexcitable ,
- unreasoning ,
- untutored ,
- voiceless .
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How to use "Dumb" in context?
people
The world often seems full of people who are either too intelligent or too dumb to realize what they're doing. Unfortunately, the world is also full of people who are just plain dumb.
For example, there are the people who think that by using a phone in their car, they're safe from getting pulled over. There are the people who don't realize that if they light a candle in a closed room, the heat from the burning wax will start a fire. And, of course, there are the people who don't realize that throwing a rock into a body of water can cause a tsunami.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
stupid.
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Proper noun, singular
stupid.
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Noun, singular or mass
stupid.
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Interjection
stupid.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
absurd, asinine, bad, brainless, daft, dull, dummy, ignorant, insane, lame, mindless, moronic, pathetic, silent, smart, speechless, voiceless, idiots, dorky, dumb-ass, fucking, stupid-ass.
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Noun, singular or mass
dummy.
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Interjection
balls.
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Verb, past tense
Got.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
Does.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
dopey, foolish, idiotic, mute, ridiculous, tongue-tied, witless, dumbass.
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Noun, singular or mass
idiotic.
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Adjective
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