dumbphone

/ˈdʌm.foʊn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

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noun

Informal

"The Boring Phone is part of a new dumbphone boom, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with."
"But kids don’t really need an internet-enabled phone at the start of high school, [Jean] Twenge argues, because they can get a “dumbphone” (a term Twenge dislikes)."

From dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.

dumbphones (plural) dumb phone (alternative)

flip phone

basic phone

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How do you pronounce dumbphone?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdʌm.foʊn/.

What does dumbphone mean?

Where does dumbphone come from?

From dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.

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