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Definition: DUMB ANIMAL |
DUMB ANIMAL1. Any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a ``speaking animal.'' Dumb cake , a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. --Halliwell. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Moron, imbecile, idiot; fool; dumb animal; vegetable, brain-dead. |
Animal | Beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "DUMB ANIMAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | oskäliga djur. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-i-l-m-m-n-u" | |
-2 letters: bimanual, labdanum. | |
-3 letters: albumin, alumina, ladanum, mailman, maudlin. | |
-4 letters: abulia, aidman, alumin, alumna, alumni, animal, audial, baalim, badman, imbalm, indaba, labium, lambda, lamina, landau, lumina, madman, manila, manual, unlaid. | |
-5 letters: adman, aland, album, almud, amain, amnia, anima, banal, binal, blain, bland, blind, build, daman, dulia, dunam, imaum, labia, lamia, lanai, lauan, liana, liman, limba. | |
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