Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Käännös | Konteksti |
|---|
| Adjektiivit |
| 1. | | halventava, arkikielessä |
| 2. | | halventava, kuvaannollinen, arkikielessä |
| 3. | | |
| 4. | | |
| 5. | | puhekieli |
| Verbit |
| 6. | | |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
- (African-American Vernacular, dated) An intensifier expressing contempt; damn, damned.
- (archaic) Not talkative; taciturn or unwilling to speak.
- (dated) Having no input or voice in running things.
- (dated, of things, actions, etc.) Unaccompanied by words or speech, silent, wordless.
- (dated) Not producing any sound, silent.
- (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.
- (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
- Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
- (of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.
- (obsolete, rare) Lacking brightness or clearness as a colour; dim, dull.
Verbi
- (transitive, dated) To silence.
- (transitive) To make stupid.
- (transitive) To represent as stupid.
- (transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.
Adverbi
- (African-American Vernacular) Very, extremely.
Esimerkit
- His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.
- to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures
- dumb show
- This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
- The country people frequently ſay,—How can you treat a poor dumb beaſt ill; and a ſtreſs is very properly laid on the word dumb; for dumb they appear to thoſe who do not obſerve their looks and geſtures; but God, who takes care of every thing, unserſtands their language...
- to pierce into the dumb past
- You are so dumb! You don't even know how to make toast!
- This is dumb! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!
- Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.
- Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
- The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end.
- I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.
- 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.
- The 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.
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