deaf
IPA: dˈɛf
noun
- (nonstandard, rare) A deaf person.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To deafen.
adjective
- Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
- Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
- Of or relating to the community of deaf people.
- (obsolete) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
- Of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages.
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Examples of "deaf" in Sentences
- One of the symptoms is deafness.
- The inability to hear is called deafness.
- The school is for the deaf and the blind.
- The breed is also predisposed to deafness.
- Deafness is not the usual state of humanity.
- The character pretended to be deaf and mute.
- The deaf could hear, and the dumb could talk.
- The character is pretended to be deaf and mute.
- The blind see, the deaf hear, and the lame walk.
- Nothing personal, but the term deaf-mute is way, way out of style.
- But I think theawesomerobot's point about iPods for the deaf is a good one.
- But the chance to give those living in deafness the gift of sound urged him on.
- Via MeFi, where an interesting discussion about opposition in deaf communities to cochlear implants ensues.
- He felt the ridicule which was attached to the mute character of the Legislative Body, which he called his deaf and dumb assembly.
- The temptation to discuss, solely in the light of Helen Keller, the whole matter of educating the deaf is a dangerous one, and one which I have not taken particular care to avoid, because my opinions are of no authority and I have merely tried to suggest problems and reinforce some of the main ideas expressed by Miss Sullivan, who is an authority.
- A teacher of the deaf cannot lose sight of the fact that in the term deaf, or deaf-mute, there are included at least four sub-classes, namely, the semi-mutes, who have lost their hearing after they had acquired more or less perfectly the use of language; the semi-deaf, who retain some power of hearing, but yet cannot attend with profit schools for hearing children; the congenitally deaf, possessing some ability to perceive sound; and the totally deaf from birth, who are unable to perceive sound.