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dumb
Synonyms and Antonyms of dumb
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deliberately refraining from speech
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not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily
airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
cretinous, feebleminded, simpleminded
boobish, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, silly, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
acute, astute, discerning, insightful, keen, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, highbrow, intellectual, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, thinking, well-read
educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained
crafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wily
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tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination)
diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy
extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing, sociable
Synonym Discussion of dumb
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- stupid students just keeping the seats warm
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- stupid with drink
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- monotonous work that leaves the mind dull
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- too dense to take a hint
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- a crass, materialistic people
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- too dumb to figure out what's going on
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Synonyms and Antonyms of dumb
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