dumbly
/ˈdʌmli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work."
- "I handed it dumbly to my friend, who had the grace to giggle."
- "We both stared at it dumbly, wondering why she had done such a thing, when suddenly something remarkable began to happen."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more dumbly (comparative)
most dumbly (superlative)