dummy

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /dʌmi/

Noun

Singular dummy

Plural dummies

Dummies

1. A dummy is a model of a person. A dummy is often used to show clothes or test safety.

   The dress looked better on the dummy.

   The company uses dummies to test the new cars in crashes.

2. (informal) A dummy is a person who is stupid; if someone is a dummy they are not intelligent.

   You got good grades, I know you are not a dummy.

   I got angry because they treated me like a dummy.

   Those guys are a bunch of dummies.

   I need easy instruction, something for dummies.

3. A dummy is something that is not there but people act like its there for some purpose.

   That file is just a dummy to help the program start.

Synonyms

• model
• Stupid person: idiot, fool
• Not real / not there: fake, stand-in

Related words

• dumb

Adjective

Positive dummy

Comparative none

Superlative none

1. A dummy thing is something that is not there or is not the thing it is called.

   They used a dummy account to make the records look right.

   The card game has one dummy player for each real player.

Synonyms

• fake