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undumb en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + dumb.

Meanings

  1. (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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undumbest Degree=Sup rare lexicographic

undumb en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + dumb.

Meanings

  1. 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:

Forms

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undumbed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undumbed Tense=Past lexicographic
undumbing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undumbs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic