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deaf

noun

1 deaf

People who have severe hearing impairments.

verb

1 deaf

Make or render deaf:
— A deafening noise.

synonym: deafen.

Dutch: verdoven

adjective

1 deaf

Lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.

Roget 458: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless etc. (indifferent) ... show more

Roget 419: deaf, earless, surd; hard of hearing, dull of hearing; deaf-mute, stunned, deafened; stone deaf; deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, deaf as a beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker.    inaudible, ... show more

Polish: niesłyszący, głuchy

2 deaf

usually followed by `to' Unwilling or refusing to pay heed:
— Deaf to her warnings.

synonym: indifferent.


Moby thesaurus: authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, borne, bullheaded, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf and dumb, deaf to reason, deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, dogmatic, dull-eared, earless, fanatical, hard of hearing ... show more.

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