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dumb phone

dumb phone is the alternative form of dumbphone.

Meaning of dumbphone

Noun

dumbphone (plural dumbphones)

  1. (informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.
    • 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.2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    basic phone

Forms of dumb phone

pluraldumb phones

Questions about dumb phone

What is dumb phone the alternative form of?
Dumb phone is the alternative form of dumbphone.

Words near dumb phone in the dictionary

  1. dumb network
  2. dumb networks
  3. dumb out
  4. dumb peal
  5. dumb peals
  6. dumb phone
  7. dumb phones
  8. dumb piano
  9. dumb pianos
  10. dumb pipe
  11. dumb pipes

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