mime
pantomime
dumb show | a performance using gestures and body movements without words |
dumb bomb
gravity bomb | a bomb that falls because of gravity and is not guided to a target |
| hearing aid deaf-aid | an electronic device that amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing |
| deaf | people who have severe hearing impairments, many of the deaf use sign language |
| deaf person | a person with a severe auditory impairment |
mute
deaf-mute
deaf-and-dumb person | a deaf person who is unable to speak |
dumb cane
mother-in-law plant
mother-in-law's tongue Dieffenbachia sequine | an evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves, contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name |
deaf-mutism
deaf-muteness | congenital deafness that results in inability to speak |
| strike dumb | render speechless, as by surprising or shocking, we were struck dumb by the candidate's announcement |
deafen
deaf | make or render deaf, a deafening noise |
| dumb mute silent | unable to speak because of hereditary deafness |
| dumb | lacking the power of human speech, dumb animals |
speechless
dumb | temporarily incapable of speaking, struck dumb, speechless with shock |
dense
dim
dull
dumb
obtuse
slow | slow to learn or understand, lacking intellectual acuity, so dense he never understands anything I say to him, never met anyone quite so dim, although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick- Thackeray, dumb officials make some really dumb decisions, he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse, worked with the slow students |
| deaf | lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part |
deaf-and-dumb
deaf-mute | lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak |
profoundly deaf
stone-deaf
deaf as a post
unhearing | totally deaf, unable to hear anything |
| tone-deaf | unable to appreciate music |
| deaf(p) indifferent(p) | (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed, deaf to her warnings |