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adjective

partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.

refusing to listen, heed, or be persuaded; unreasonable or unyielding: deaf to all advice.

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noun

(used with a plural verb) deaf persons collectively (usually preceded by the).

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Deaf is always a great word to know.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English deef, Old English dēaf; cognate with Middle Low German dōf, Dutch doof, Old High German toub

Related forms

deaf·ly, adverb

deaf·ness, noun

half-deaf, adjective

non·deaf, adjective

non·deaf·ly, adverb

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non·deaf·ness, noun

qua·si-deaf, adjective

qua·si-deaf·ly, adverb

sem·i·deaf, adjective

sem·i·deaf·ness, noun

un·deaf, adjective

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Pronunciation note
Deaf is usually pronounced

[def] , with the vowel of left. In uneducated speech the pronunciation

[deef], to rhyme with leaf, is heard, though it is becoming less common.

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Example Sentences

Many aspects of society are not easy for the deaf to navigate, but synagogues historically held particular challenges.

Closed captioning for deaf users was not properly supported.

Everyone pretends to be in favour of bipartisan dialogue, but it is a dialogue of the deaf.

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Many aspects of society are not easy for the deaf to navigate, but synagogues historically held particular challenges.

Closed captioning for deaf users was not properly supported.

Everyone pretends to be in favour of bipartisan dialogue, but it is a dialogue of the deaf.

Deaf people with enhanced vision can thank otherwise idle brain cells for their heightened sense, a new study in cats suggests.

Recent research explains how the deaf can have extraordinary sight.

Some deaf people have extraordinarily keen vision, and a new study of cats may explain why.

There is only one public school in the world where deaf children are taught to swim.

Mideast autocrat, used to declaiming on whatever strikes his fancy, oblivious as his ritual pronouncements fall on deaf ears.

But while such complaints to the authorities are likely to fall on deaf ears, marketing aimed at children is not.

They will doubtless suggest the sign language of the deaf.

Hearing people could identify some nonverbal sounds made by deaf people but not others, indicating that some nonverbal.

But the software is crucial for people who are deaf and hard of hearing to gain access to information, he said.

Under the law regarding separate state schools, deaf children are no different from any other disabled group.

King had been born hearing but became deaf in a motorcycle accident as a young man.

His chirping makes you deaf but the tune remains the same”.

Explain that there is more than one of these languages for the deaf.

It is then that they realize how deaf people must feel when they are among those who hear.

Floating naked, blind and deaf does have a certain aesthetic appeal to.

Talkman'' you left hanging in air an implied similarity between deaf drivers and unattentive.

Of course, that rationale would fall on deaf ears in these days.

The city came perilously close to declaring bankruptcy when its pleas for a rescue by the federal government fell on deaf ears.

One of the men was briefly blinded and made deaf by the electrical charge, and his limbs were temporarily paralyzed.

The real problem is that medical community is blind and deaf to the frequency of falls and injuries.

But look, now you'd have to be blind and deaf not to see that there are problems".

Both countries are deaf to outside complaints and seem chronically unstable.

He was born deaf but he knows exactly whats going on.

But it's not strictly necessary: deaf people manage to cross streets without benefit of hearing the traffic.

And many researchers believed females to be completely deaf.

It turns a deaf ear to her phone-in shows on a radio station run by angry exiles.

He is deaf and can be agressive towards cats and other dogs.

For example, the stridency of the native yahoos railing against evolution and global warming does not fall in deaf ears.

Conversely, cochlear implants for the deaf are input-only.

When they do preach that message, it often falls on deaf ears.

Thus, any argument posed to a climate skeptic will fall on deaf ears.

But the protests fell on deaf ears, as the song really should have, and the seven planned episodes were shelved.

But demands from foreigners are likely to fall on deaf ears.

Many deaf people view the implant as a form of ethnic cleansing and physical mutilation.

The risk, however, is that powerful international carers become deaf to local voices.

The committee's call for an independent counsel have fallen on deaf ears.

The failure of farmers in poor countries to respond to price signals does not mean they are deaf to them.

The author, stone deaf and deep in the throes of an exhaust-note-inspired freak-out.

In this dialogue of the deaf only one of the parties has been deaf.

Criticisms of these practices used to fall on deaf ears.

But the notion of compromise increasingly falls on deaf ears”.

Zapatero is deaf or is a pathological optimist, or both.

The central leadership is not entirely deaf to public opinion.

He spent years trying to alert authorities of foul play, his calls falling on deaf ears.

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World English Dictionary

deaf (dɛf)

—*adj*
1.	a. partially or totally unable to hear
	b. See also tone-deaf (as collective noun; preceded by the): the deaf
2.	refusing to heed: deaf to the cries of the hungry

[Old English dēaf; related to Old Norse daufr]



'deafly

—*adv*

'deafness

—n

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Word Origin & History

deaf

O.E. deaf "deaf, dull, obtuse," specialized from P.Gmc. *daubaz, from PIE dheubh-, which was used to form words meaning "confusion, stupefaction, dizziness" (cf. Gk. typhlos "blind). The word was pronounced to rhyme with reef until 18c. Deaf-mute is from 1837, after Fr. sourd-muet. Deaf-mutes were sought

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after in 18c.-19c. Britain as fortune-tellers. Deaf as an adder (O.E.) is from Psalms lviii.5.

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Medical Dictionary

deaf (děf)
adj.