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What is the adjective for dumbness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs dumb and dumben which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dumb
  1. (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
  2. (dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
  3. (pejorative) extremely stupid.
  4. (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
  5. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. stupid, dense, brainless, doltish, mindless, unintelligent, foolish, simple, thick, vacuous, witless, dim, dopey, dull, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, obtuse, slow, daft, moronic, oafish, vapid, cretinous, fatuous, dorky, senseless, birdbrained, blockish, boneheaded, dopy, feebleminded, airheaded, bonehead, bovine, chuckleheaded, dippy, dozy, dunderheaded, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lumpish, thickheaded, unsmart, bubbleheaded, dotish, gormless, lunkheaded, muttonheaded, opaque … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “She had a habit of speaking illogically, which led many to believe that she was a dumb person.”
      “He was unprepared for the interview and remained mostly dumb as the questions were put before him.”
      “He was born dumb but is able to communicate using sign language.”
dumbish
  1. (colloquial) Somewhat stupid.
dumber
  1. comparative form of dumb: more dumb
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stupider, denser, foolisher, simpler, thicker, dimmer, duller, ignoranter, obtuser, slower, dafter, dorkier, dopier, dippier, dozier, softer in the head, more brainless, more doltish, more mindless, more unintelligent, more vacuous, more witless, more dopey, more idiotic, more imbecilic, more moronic, more oafish, more vapid, more cretinous, more fatuous, more senseless, more birdbrained, more blockish, more boneheaded, more feebleminded, more airheaded, more bovine, more chuckleheaded, more dunderheaded, more knuckleheaded, more lamebrained, more lumpish, more thickheaded, more unsmart, more bubbleheaded, more dotish, more gormless, more muttonheaded, more opaque, more pinheaded … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It's Johnson who's directly overseeing the staff massacres as well as micromanaging some of the dumber editorial moves.”
      “But even as the winners seemed to compete for the crowns of dumb and dumber, the barrage of overhype left everyone numb and number.”
      “In spite of being dumber than a doornail, the minister immediately picked up on it.”
dumbest
  1. superlative form of dumb: most dumb
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stupidest, densest, foolishest, simplest, thickest, dimmest, dullest, ignorantest, obtusest, slowest, daftest, dorkiest, dopiest, dippiest, doziest, softest in the head, most brainless, most doltish, most mindless, most unintelligent, most vacuous, most witless, most dopey, most idiotic, most imbecilic, most moronic, most oafish, most vapid, most cretinous, most fatuous, most senseless, most birdbrained, most blockish, most boneheaded, most feebleminded, most airheaded, most bovine, most chuckleheaded, most dunderheaded, most knuckleheaded, most lamebrained, most lumpish, most thickheaded, most unsmart, most bubbleheaded, most dotish, most gormless, most muttonheaded, most opaque, most pinheaded … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The dumbest thing is that the pain isn't bad enough to make me feel like I should stay home.”
      “Okay that was the dumbest speculation I've ever had and you bastards let me say it like some sort of idiot.”
      “In fact, Santorum is such a putz that he was once named the the dumbest member of Congress.”
dumbed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dumb
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hushed, silenced, muted, quieted, quietened, quelled, shushed, squelched, stilled, extinguished, settled, shut up … more
dumbing
  1. present participle of dumb
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hushing, silencing, muting, quieting, quietening, quelling, shushing, squelching, stilling, extinguishing, settling, shutting up … more
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