What does dumbly mean?
Dumbly means In a silent way..
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/ˈdʌmli/ · adverb
In a silent way..
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.
Use dumbly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dumbly means In a silent way..
Common synonyms include silently, densely, obtusely.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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