DUMBER
Adjective
dumber
comparative form of dumb
Anagrams
• bedrum, bumder
Source: Wiktionary
DUMB
Dumb, a. Etym: [AS. dumb; akin to D. dom stupid, dumb, Sw. dumb,
Goth. dumbs; cf. Gr. Deaf, and cf. Dummy.]
1. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate
sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.
2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied
by words; as, dumb show.
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. Shak.
To pierce into the dumb past. J. C. Shairp.
3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.]
Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. De Foe.
Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute.
– Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has
no well-defined "chill." [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except
man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in
contradistinction to man, who is a "speaking animal." -- Dumb cake, a
cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic
ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell.
– Dumb cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family
(Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to
swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech.
– Dumb crambo. See under crambo.
– Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation,
shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and noise." Shak. (b)
Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show.
– To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by
astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.
Syn.
– Silent; speechless; noiseless. See Mute.
Dumb, v. t.
Definition: To put to silence. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition