WikiWord

English

dum

/dʌm/ · adjective

Meaning

  1. Cooked with steam
  2. Syllable used when humming a tune.
  3. Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
  4. Silent; unaccompanied by words.
  5. (especially of a person) Extremely stupid.
  6. Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
  7. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
dum — meaning and etymology | WikiWord