deaf
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Definition
Adjective:
- Lacking the sense of hearing: Partially or completely unable to hear.
- Unwilling to listen or pay attention: Refusing to heed or acknowledge something, often followed by the preposition 'to'.
Verb:
- To make deaf: To cause a loss of hearing, either temporarily or permanently.
Noun:
- (The deaf): People who are deaf, considered as a group.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- He became deaf after the accident. (He lost his hearing after the accident.)
- She was deaf to his pleas for help. (She was unwilling to listen to his pleas.)
- Verb:
- The explosion deafened him for a few moments. (The explosion made him temporarily unable to hear.)
- Noun:
- Schools for the deaf often use sign language. (Schools for people who are deaf often use sign language.)
Advanced Usage
- To turn a deaf ear: To refuse to listen or respond.
- The manager turned a deaf ear to the employees' complaints.
- Deaf as a post/stone: Completely deaf (an informal simile).
- After the concert, I was deaf as a post for an hour.
- Fall on deaf ears: (Of a request, advice, etc.) To be ignored.
- Their warnings about the danger fell on deaf ears.
Variants and Related Words
- Deafening (adj): Extremely loud.
- The crowd's applause was deafening.
- Deafness (n): The condition of being deaf.
- His deafness was caused by a childhood illness.
Synonyms
- Adjective (unable to hear): Hearing-impaired, hard of hearing.
- Adjective (unwilling to listen): Unheeding, indifferent, oblivious.
Related Phrases
- Deaf-mute: (Note: This term is now often considered outdated and potentially offensive. "Deaf" or "non-verbal" are preferred.)
- Deaf to reason: Stubbornly unwilling to listen to logical arguments.
- He was deaf to reason and refused to change his plan.
Idioms
- None so deaf as those who will not hear: A proverb meaning that the most stubborn people are those who choose not to listen to reason or truth.
- I tried to explain, but there are none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Adjective
- (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
- deaf to her warnings
- lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
Verb
- make or render deaf
- a deafening noise
Noun
- people who have severe hearing impairments
- many of the deaf use sign language