undumb

rare superlative undumbest

1. not comparableNot dumb (in various senses).

   Then I did a miracle on myself and came undumb.

   1926, P. C. Wren, Beau Sabreur: By Percival Christopher Wren, page 298

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   This is a perfect phrase, a phrase that unveils the irony of Cézanne's unlong and undumb paintings — each, we might assume, with its own unfixed idea of velocity.

   1995, Joseph Grigely, Textualterity: Art, Theory, and Textual Criticism, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 126

   You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase; perhaps you wouldn't even feel it.

   1996, Vita Sackville-West, edited by Peter Washington, Love Letters, Everyman's Library, →ISBN, page 66

   “If there are no undumb questions, meeting adjourned.”

   2014 October 7, Faith Hunter, Broken Soul, Penguin, →ISBN

present singular third person undumbs · participle present undumbing · participle past undumbed · past undumbed

1. to make no longer dumb.

   Almost everyone knows we have dumbed down our schools and have to undumb them.

   2010 May 11, Ben Wattenberg, Values Matter Most: How Republicans, or Democrats, or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 93

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   One of her earlier bosses said of her: “She gives people a chance to undumb themselves—she asks lots of questions, gives careful feedback, delegates complete tasks with careful instructions.

   1989 January 1, Michael Lombardo, Robert Eichinger, Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late, Center for Creative Leadership, →ISBN, page 12

   The wave is quantum entanglement, Multipersonhood, over determination, and even that doesn't begin to undumb what's going on.

   2020 April 7, Richard Grossinger, Bottoming Out the Universe: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN