If you're deaf, you can't hear or have extremely limited hearing abilities. Many people who are deaf communicate using sign language.
Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing;
Noun
people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language"
Verb
make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"
Adjective
lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
a.
Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part;
unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
a.
Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive;
regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation;
-- with to; as, deaf to reason.
a.
Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
a.
Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
a.
Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
v. t.
To deafen.
Deaf
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.2.
O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!3.
Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.4.
A deaf murmur through the squadron went.5.
If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught.
Deaf
Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing;
To deafen.
Usage Examples
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
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Other Usage ExamplesPeople are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
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