What is another word for dumbed?

Pronunciation: [dˈʌmd] (IPA)

The term "dumbed" is an informal word that means someone or something has been made less intelligent or less effective, usually by external factors. Synonyms for "dumbed" include "simplified", "dulled", "lessened", "weakened", "desensitized", "inhibited", and "blunted". These words all have similar meanings but slight variations in their connotations. For example, "simplified" suggests a reduction of complexity, whereas "dulled" suggests a loss of sharpness or clarity. "Lessened" implies a decrease in intensity or amount, while "weakened" suggests a decrease in strength. "Desensitized" implies a reduced sensitivity or emotional response, and "inhibited" suggests a restriction in action or freedom. "Blunted" implies a loss of impact or sharpness.

What are the hypernyms for Dumbed?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for dumbed?

The word "dumbed" means to make someone or something less intelligent or foolish. Its antonyms include words such as educate, inform, enlighten, develop, enhance, refine, and stimulate. To educate someone is to give them knowledge or skills, to inform them is to provide them with information, to enlighten them is to give them greater understanding, and to develop them is to help them grow and improve. Enhancing someone means making them better and more valuable, refining them is to give them more precision and accuracy, and stimulating them is to motivate and inspire them. All these words are opposite of the meaning of "dumbed.

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Famous quotes with Dumbed

  • The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
    Fredric Jameson
  • Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
    Dan Simmons
  • I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.
    Edward Zehr
  • Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic.When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.Less apparent is that bland writing — timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing – is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark.
    Tom Robbins

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