dumbphone
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- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 9
/ˈdʌm.fəʊn/
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/ˈdʌm.fəʊn/ · /ˈdʌm.foʊn/
Definition of dumbphone
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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.”
“But kids don’t really need an internet-enabled phone at the start of high school, [Jean] Twenge argues, because they can get a “dumbphone” (a term Twenge dislikes).”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.
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