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- [duhm-boh]
- /ˈdʌm boʊ/
- /ˈdəm.bəʊ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [duhm-boh]
- /ˈdʌm boʊ/
Definitions of dumbo word
- noun plural dumbo a stupid person: a class full of dumbos. 1
- adjective dumbo stupid or foolish: What a dumbo idea! 1
- noun dumbo a slow-witted unintelligent person 0
- noun dumbo A person who is stupid. 0
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Origin of dumbo
First appearance:
before 1955 One of the 4% newest English words
probably earlier than 1955-60; dumb + -o
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Dumbo
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
dumbo popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
dumbo usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for dumbo
noun dumbo
- blockhead — a stupid person
- clod — A clod of earth is a large lump of earth.
- dolt — a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- dullard — a stupid, insensitive person.
- dumbbell — a gymnastic apparatus consisting of two wooden or metal balls connected by a short bar serving as a handle, used as a weight for exercising.
adjective dumbo
- numbskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- yoyo — a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
- lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
- yo-yo — a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
- birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
Antonyms for dumbo
noun dumbo
- academicians — Plural form of academician.
- brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- medulla oblongata — the lowest or hindmost part of the brain, continuous with the spinal cord.
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