deaf person

Noun

Meaning

a person with a severe auditory impairment

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

cripple disabled deaf handicapped person deafie blind person disabled person blind people blind persons citizens with disability crippled individuals crippled people crippled persons deaf man deaf people
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Antonyms

person hearing bodied persons disability-free individuals disability-free persons employable people
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Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Hyponyms

mute deaf-mute deaf-and-dumb person lip reader

Examples

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Frank Herbert

At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access. I. King Jordan

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. Madeleine L'Engle

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome. Christopher Moore (author)

When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance. Ibo Proverb

Thunder cannot make a deaf person hear. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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