Dumbness

Definition

dumb /dʌm/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ဆြံ႕အေသာ။ She's been dumb from birth. ၂။ ၾကက္ေသေသသြား[ေသာ]။ He stood looking around him, baffled and dumb. ❍ We were all struck dumb with amazement. ၃။ ( infml ) မိုက္မဲေသာ။ ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေနေသာ။ That was a pretty dumb thing to do. ❍ If the police question you, act dumb (ie pretend you do not know anything). dumbly adv : She was staring dumbly into the fire-place. dumbness n [U] ❏ dumb animals n [pl] သနားစရာသတၱဝါမ်ား။ ❏ dumb blonde n ( derog ) ေရႊေရာင္ဆံပင္ႏွင့္ ႐ုပ္လွလွ အေပါမ။ In her early films she regularly played dumb blonde parts. ❏ dumb waiter n ၁။ စားေသာက္ဆိုင္တြင္ စားစရာမ်ားကို တစ္ထပ္မွတစ္ထပ္သို႔ သယ္ပို႔ေသာ ဓာတ္ေလွကားငယ္။ ၂။ = LAZY SUSAN

Examples

1. She’s so dumb she can’t even figure out her answering machine.
2. You gave him your phone number? That was a dumb thing to do.
3. Some of the passengers were dumb with terror.
4. [be struck dumb] : I was struck dumb by the clerk’s rudeness.