1. deaf - Noun
2. deaf - Adjective
3. deaf - Verb
4. deaf - Adjective Satellite
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 dictionaryIt 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