Contextualizebeta

dumbphone

noun
/ˈdʌm.fəʊn/UK/ˈdʌm.foʊn/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from φωνή — “sound”
  2. compounded as dumbphone — “dumb + phone”

Definitions

  1. 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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dumbphone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA