dumb vs numbskulled

dumb

adj
  • Extremely stupid. 

  • Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value. 

  • Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour. 

verb
  • To make stupid. 

  • To represent as stupid. 

  • To reduce the intellectual demands of. 

numbskulled

adj
  • stupid. 

How often have the words dumb and numbskulled occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )