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deaf

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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

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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

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