| stone-deaf | |
| —adj | |
| completely deaf | |
| usage Use of this word to refer to people with serious hearing difficulties is potentially very offensive: preferred form: profoundly deaf | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |