dumbass
Syllables: dumb·ass/ˈdʌm.æs/
dumbass noun: a stupid or foolish person.
Noun
dumbass (plural dumbasses)
Adjective
dumbass (comparative more dumbass or dumberass, superlative most dumbass or dumbestass)
- Stupid, foolish.
- That dumbass driver ruined my car!
- I zipped my coat up to the neck, worried now that going to the march was more dumbass than I'd thought. It got closer—the only frigging thing in the road!—and I realized I was shaking. I couldn't move.2015, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely, All American Boys, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
dumbass meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malay and Indonesian
dumbass in Tamil
- தெற்குவடக்குத் தெரியாதவன், மரமண்டை
dumbass in Bengali
- dumbass, idiot
- গাঁইড়া gãiṛa
dumbass in Malay
- stupid or foolish person
- bangang, bodoh, dongok, dungu, bahlul
dumbass in Indonesian
- stupid or foolish person
- goblok, tolol, dongok, dungu, bahlul
Forms of dumbass
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dumbasses |
| alternative form | dumb-ass |
| alternative form | dumb ass |
| alternative Commonwealth Ireland UK | dumbarse |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more dumbass |
| comparative | dumberass |
| superlative | most dumbass |
| superlative | dumbestass |
Origin of dumbass
From dumb + ass. It is likely that ¹ass (= donkey), not ²ass (= buttocks), was the original sense within this compound noun (solid compound or open compound), but neither sense is precluded, and many people today may uncritically parse the term in the latter way, even if it is misapprehensive. Apparent analogy with forms such as hard-ass and big-ass would naturally lend support to the second parsing. A similar synergy can be seen in the fact that the terms buttload and assload originated as literally meaning a cartload and the load transportable by a single donkey (respectively), but probably most English speakers today would assume that their derivation involves the buttocks.
Words formed from dumbass
Questions about dumbass
- What does dumbass mean?
- Dumbass means a stupid or foolish person.
- What is dumbass in Tamil?
- Dumbass in Tamil is தெற்குவடக்குத் தெரியாதவன், மரமண்டை. See Dumbass meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dumbass?
- Dumbass can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce dumbass?
- Dumbass is pronounced /ˈdʌm.æs/.
- What is the plural of dumbass?
- The plural of dumbass is dumbasses.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dumbass (page history and authors); dumbass (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গাঁইড়া (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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