dumbphone

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
23
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈdʌm.fəʊn/
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/ˈdʌm.fəʊn/ · /ˈdʌm.foʊn/

Definition of dumbphone

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
    “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).”

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Etymology

From dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.

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