Dumbo vs. Dumb

Dumbonoun

A stupid person.

Dumbonoun

"Stupid person," by 1951, American English, from dumb. The Disney musical cartoon is from 1941; in it the elephant's name is a mocking nickname based on Jumbo.

Dumbo

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ().

Dumbadjective

(dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").

Dumbadjective

(dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.

Dumbadjective

extremely stupid.

Dumbadjective

(figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

Dumbadjective

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.

Dumbverb

To silence.

Dumbverb

(transitive) To make stupid.

Dumbverb

(transitive) To represent as stupid.

Dumbverb

(transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.

Dumbadjective

Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.

Dumbadjective

Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.

Dumbadjective

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.

Dumbverb

To put to silence.

Dumbadjective

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;

Dumbadjective

unable to speak temporarily;

Dumbadjective

lacking the power of human speech;

Dumbadjective

unable to speak because of hereditary deafness