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Antonyms for dumbbell

Grammar : Noun
Spell : duhm-bel
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʌmˌbɛl

Definition of dumbbell

Origin :
  • "weighted bar used for exercise," 1711, originally an apparatus like that used to ring a church bell, but without the bell (hence dumb); used for exercise but sometimes also to practice ringing changes. Figurative sense of "blockhead, stupid person" attested by 1918, American English college slang.
  • noun stupid person
Example sentences :
  • It's nice to feel she isn't being wasted on some dumbbell, isn't it?
  • Extract from : « Christopher and the Clockmakers » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • I was taken aboard one of their dumbbell ships, and brought here.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Ninth Planet » by Donald Allen Wollheim
  • But a woman is at once given away: she look like a dumbbell run over by an express train.
  • Extract from : « In Defense of Women » by H. L. Mencken
  • The next day he calmly chose the seat in front of the dumbbell—and proceeded to write a perfect examination.
  • Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
  • It was something like a dumbbell, covered with marine growth where it had been above the sand, but fairly smooth under it.
  • Extract from : « The Wailing Octopus » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • It was the shape of a dumbbell—two spheres joined together by a short middle bar.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Ninth Planet » by Donald Allen Wollheim
  • And hanging on patrol over this polar basin were two more of the dumbbell ships.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Ninth Planet » by Donald Allen Wollheim
  • Above it, they caught a flicker from the forest of masts and the glint from a dumbbell ship.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Ninth Planet » by Donald Allen Wollheim
  • Of unusual shape, both round and flat, so a cross-section looks like a dumbbell with angular ends.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Book of Cheese » by Robert Carlton Brown

Synonyms for dumbbell

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