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RELATED WORDS : deaf as a post deaf mute deaf person deaf to profoundly deaf

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun deaf has 1 sense

• deaf(n = noun.group) Array - people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language"
is a kind of people
Derived forms verb deaf₁, adjective deaf₁

Verb deaf has 1 sense

• deaf(v = verb.perception) deafen - make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"
is one way to desensitise, desensitize
Derived form noun deaf₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Adjective deaf has 2 senses

• deaf(a = adj.all) Array - lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part; Array
Derived forms noun deaf₁, noun deafness₁
Antonym: hearing

• deaf(s = adj.all) indifferent - (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed; "deaf to her warnings"

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THESAURUS

deaf

authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, borne, bullheaded, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf and dumb, deaf to reason, deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, dogmatic, dull-eared, earless, fanatical, hard of hearing, headstrong, heedless, hidebound, illiberal, impervious, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insular, intractable, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mulish, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, oblivious, parochial, pertinacious, perverse, petty, pigheaded, positive, preoccupied, provincial, purblind, self-willed, shortsighted, small, small-minded, stone-deaf, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy, stunned, surd, thick of hearing, tone-deaf, uncatholic, uncharitable, unconcerned, unconscious, ungenerous, unhearing, unheedful, unliberal, unmoved, unpersuadable, unresponsive, unyielding, word-deaf

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Deafness

N deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity, inaudibility, inaudibleness, deaf, earless, surd, hard of hearing, dull of hearing, deaf-mute, stunned, deafened, stone deaf, deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, deaf as a beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker, inaudible, out of hearing, hear no evil, (6) Light (i) LIGHT IN GENERAL.

Inattention

N inattention, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, oversight, inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard, supineness, etourderie, want of thought, heedlessness, insouciance, abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction, inattentive, unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning, inadvertent, mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind, deaf, bird-witted, hand over head, cursory, percursory, giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele, offhand, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick, giddy, giddy as a goose, wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying, heedless, careless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted, distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought, rapt, in the clouds, bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied, engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard, napping, dreamy, caught napping, disconcerted, distracted, put out, inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly, per incuriam, sub silentio, Int, stand at ease, stand easy!, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you.

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