its simple they are dumb
A person who can not or will not speak is known as a 'mute'
The term "dumb" historically referred to someone who was unable to speak or unable to speak fluently, not necessarily due to lack of intelligence. However, it is now considered outdated and offensive to use this term to describe a mute person.
No. Dumb means either unable to speak or not very intelligent.
"dumb" is the old word for this condition. Unfortunately dumb has come to mean stupid, so the politically correct probably have another term for it is mute.
The root of the word "dumbfounded" is 'dumb,' which comes from Middle Dutch and means unable to speak or speechless. The addition of 'founded' creates the sense of being struck with amazement or astonishment.
what are you talking about? The correct definition of dumb is unable to speak or can hardly speak at all. this question doesn't make sense unless you mean how stupid do people get and in that case, some are VERY stupid.
A person who can not or will not speak is known as a 'mute'
Mute,dumb or aphasic.
"Dumb" means "unable to speak". Synonyms might be unspeaking, silent, or mute.
If you are physicly unable to speak you are deemed 'dumb'
I assume you mean "Was Helen Keller unable to speak", to which the answer is she did learn to speak.
If someone is unable to speak, it's called being 'dumb'.
If someone is unable to speak, it's called being 'dumb'.
" This guy is so Dumb , he didn't know how to solve this Dumb Question " is a colloquial usage.'She was born without functioning vocal cords, and so was dumb from birth until the throat surgery.' This is a correct usage of dumb, meaning unable to speak.'An angel appeared, and the prophet was struck dumb' is also a correct usage, meaning temporarily unable to speak.
Someone who does not speak is usually called mute. This means not speaking, or (temporarily) unable to speak.The word dumb refers to people who are physically unable to speak, and used to be widely used but that came to refer to stupid and so fell out of favour.Care should be taken when referring to someone as dumb.
The term "dumb" historically referred to someone who was unable to speak or unable to speak fluently, not necessarily due to lack of intelligence. However, it is now considered outdated and offensive to use this term to describe a mute person.
No the correct term of dumb is that you are unable to speak but of you want to know if she's stupid then no