dumb phoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdʌm.fəʊn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdʌm.foʊn/
• 韻: -ʌmfoʊn
• ハイフネーション: dumb‧phone

名詞

dumbphone (plural dumbphones)

1. (informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.

   Synonym: basic phone

   Coordinate term: flip phone

   Hypernyms: cell phone, mobile phone < phone

   Hyponym: featurephone

   • 2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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.

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   • 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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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