dumb (v.)
dumb (adj.)
- abiotic
- animal
- animalistic
- aphasic
- aphonic
- apish
- asinine
- awkward
- azoic
- batty
- beastly
- beguiled
- besotted
- bestial
- blockheaded
- blockish
- bovine
- brainless
- breathless
- brief
- brusque
- brutal
- brute
- brutish
- buffoonish
- callow
- cloddish
- close
- closemouthed
- cockeyed
- concise
- crass
- crazy
- credulous
- curt
- daft
- dazed
- dense
- dizzy
- doltish
- doting
- dull
- dumbfounded
- dumbstricken
- dumbstruck
- duncical
- duncish
- empty
- empty-headed
- exanimate
- fat
- fatheaded
- fatuous
- flaky
- fond
- foolish
- fuddled
- futile
- gaga
- gauche
- goofy
- green
- groping
- gross
- idiotic
- ignorant
- imbecile
- inane
- inanimate
- inarticulate
- incoherent
- indistinct
- inept
- inert
- inexperienced
- infatuated
- innocent
- insane
- insensate
- insensible
- insentient
- instinctive
- kooky
- laconic
- lifeless
- loony
- lumpish
- mad
- maudlin
- mindless
- moronic
- mum
- mute
- naive
- nescient
- nonconscious
- nonliving
- nonrational
- nutty
- oafish
- opaque
- quiet
- raw
- reticent
- sappy
- screwy
- senseless
- sentimental
- short
- silent
- silly
- simple
- snug
- sottish
- soulless
- speechless
- stupid
- subhuman
- taciturn
- tentative
- terse
- thick
- thoughtless
- tongue-tied
- tongueless
- unacquainted
- unanimated
- uncommunicative
- uncomprehending
- unconscious
- unenlightened
- unfamiliar
- unfeeling
- unilluminated
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unintelligent
- unknowing
- unripe
- unsure
- untalkative
- unversed
- vacuous
- voiceless
- wacky
- wet
- witless
- wordless
- wrongheaded
- zoic
Silence in love bewrays more woe
Than words, though ne'er so witty:
A beggar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity.
A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
The kings of modern thought are dumb.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.
No nightly trance or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
