deaf

Speech parts

1. deaf - Noun

2. deaf - Adjective

3. deaf - Verb

4. deaf - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.

Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.

Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.

Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.

To deafen.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hard of hearing hearing-impaired indifferent deaf-mute deafen stone-deaf unhearing profoundly deaf deafness hearing blind unconscious ignorant insensitive intractable
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Antonyms

hearing down active parley aware feeling
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Hypernyms

people desensitize desensitise

Phrases with the word

turn a deaf ear fall on deaf ears are you deaf deaf ears completely deaf deaf as a beetle

Anagrams

fade EDFA FDEA

Examples

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. Luis Buñuel

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen. Jewish Proverb

He is like a deaf man at a wedding procession. Lebanese Proverb

A deaf man may not have heard the thunder but he surely will see the rain. Malian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

deaerated deaeration deaerator Deaf Adder Creek Deaf Adder Gorge deaf aid