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undumb en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + dumb.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Not dumb (in various senses).
Then I did a miracle on myself and came undumb. 1926, P. C. Wren, Beau Sabreur: By Percival Christopher Wren, page 298:
“If there are no undumb questions, meeting adjourned.” 2014 October 7, Faith Hunter, Broken Soul, Penguin, →ISBN:
You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase; perhaps you wouldn't even feel it. 1996, Vita Sackville-West, edited by Peter Washington, Love Letters, Everyman's Library, →ISBN, page 66:
This is a perfect phrase, a phrase that unveils the irony of Cézanne's unlong and undumb paintings — each, we might assume, with its own unfixed idea of velocity. 1995, Joseph Grigely, Textualterity: Art, Theory, and Textual Criticism, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 126:
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undumb en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + dumb.
Meanings
to make no longer dumb.
The wave is quantum entanglement, Multipersonhood, over determination, and even that doesn't begin to undumb what's going on. 2020 April 7, Richard Grossinger, Bottoming Out the Universe: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
Almost everyone knows we have dumbed down our schools and have to undumb them. 2010 May 11, Ben Wattenberg, Values Matter Most: How Republicans, or Democrats, or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 93:
One of her earlier bosses said of her: “She gives people a chance to undumb themselves—she asks lots of questions, gives careful feedback, delegates complete tasks with careful instructions. 1989 January 1, Michael Lombardo, Robert Eichinger, Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late, Center for Creative Leadership, →ISBN, page 12: