dumb

dumb

1. yhteys|vanha|k=en mykkä

2. tyhmä, vähä-älyinen

Esimerkkejä:

Verbal tests cannot be administered to the 'dumb'.

Liittyvät sanat: dumbass

Synonyymisanakirja

dumb

puhekyvytön, ilmaisukyvytön, mykkä, mykistynyt, sanaton.

Sitaatit

• Son, I'm gonna wipe that dumb look right off your stupid face. ''(Poika, pyyhkin tuon typerän ilmeen pois sinun pöljiltä kasvoiltasi.)''

Englannin sanakirja

dumb (englanti > suomi)

1. typerä, idioottimainen

2. typerä

dumb englanniksi

1. puhekieltä Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.

(ux)

2. Hooker

to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures

3. puhekieltä Silent; unaccompanied by words.

dumb show

4. Shakespeare

This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.

5. (quote-book)

6. J. C. Shairp

to pierce into the dumb past

7. puhekieltä extremely stupid.

You are so dumb! You dont even know how to make toast!''

8. puhekieltä pointless Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

This is dumb! Were 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.

9. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.

10. De Foe

Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.

11. To silence.

12. 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.

13. puhekieltä To make stupid.

14. 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.

15. puhekieltä To represent as stupid.

16. 2004, Stephen Oppenheimer, The Real Eve: Modern Mans 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.

17. puhekieltä To reduce the intellectual demands of.

18. 2002, Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing, p. 126,

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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