• Danish: dum, fordummende
• Finnish: typerä
• German: dümmlich, dumm

• Danish: dum, åndssvag
• Finnish: typerä
• German: sinnlos
• Italian: stupido
• Japanese: 実のない (mi no nai)
• Kurdish: بێمه‌عنا
• Latin: supervacuus , supervacua , supervacuum
• Swedish: meningslös

• ttbc Albanian: memec
• ttbc Bosnian: nem
• ttbc Catalan: mut
• ttbc Croatian: nijem
• ttbc Esperanto: muta
• ttbc Korean: 더듬다 (deodeumda) (1), 투미하다 (tumi-hada) (2,3)
• ttbc Romanian: mut
• ttbc Sardinian: mudu
• ttbc Telugu: మూగ (mooga) (1)

Verb

1. To silence.
   • 1911 Lindsay Swift William Lloyd Garrison p. 272

     The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end.

2. To make stupid.
   • 2003 Angela Calabrese Barton Teaching Science for Social Justice p. 124

     "I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.

3. To represent as stupid.
   • 2004 Stephen Oppenheimer The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa p. 107

     Bad-mouthing Neanderthals ... is symptomatic of a need to exclude and even demonize .... I suggest that the unproven dumbing of the Neanderthals is an example of the same cultural preconception ....

4. To reduce the intellectual demands of.
   • 2002 Deborah Meier In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing p. 126

     [T]he ensuing storm caused the department to lower the bar — amid protests that this was dumbing the test down — so that only 80 percent of urban kids would fail. ...

Derived terms

• dumb law
• dumb-show
• dumb terminal

Dumb may refer to:

• Stupidity, the lack of intelligence
• Dull, Not as sharp (smart) as others
• Muteness, a speech problem
• Dumbing down, a term referring to over-simplification
• Dumb (song), a song by the band Nirvana
• Dumb (person), referes very strongly to a boy named Joshua Borg

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