Deaf

Adjective

 * 1) Not having the faculty of hearing, or only partially able to hear.

Synonyms

 * hard of hearing
 * hearing-impaired

Derived terms

 * turn a deaf ear
 * stone deaf

Noun
the deaf plural collective noun


 * 1) Deaf people considered as a group.

Adverbs for Deaf
totally; insufferably; irritatingly; vexatious-ly; annoyingly; pitiably; slightly; utterly; deplorably; lamentably; unfortunately; stubbornly; callously; deliberately; unhappily; pitifully; tragically; forlornly; desperately; moodily; lonesomely.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From deaf:, from.

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: أصم
 * Armenian: խուլ
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: sağır
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kuuro, kuulovammainen
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: kuli
 * Hebrew: חירש (kheresh), חירשת (khereshet) (not having faculty of hearing)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 聴覚障害者, 耳の聞こえない,, 聾者


 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Low German: dow
 * Malay:
 * Maori:
 * Navajo:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Northern Sami: bealjeheapmi
 * Norwegian: døv
 * Old English: dēaf
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: (badhira)
 * Scots: deif
 * Scottish Gaelic: bodhar
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak: hluchý, hluchá
 * Slovene: gluh, gluha , gluho
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చెవిటి (cheviTi)
 * Turkish: sağır
 * Welsh: byddar
 * West Frisian:

Noun

 * Croatian: gluhi gluhe
 * Dutch: doven ,
 * French: les sourds
 * German:, rare but more literal: die Tauben ,
 * Hebrew: חירשים
 * Italian: i sordi, i non udenti
 * Kurdish:


 * Polish:
 * Russian: глухие plural and
 * Slovak: nepočujúci plural and
 * Slovene: gluhi
 * Spanish: sordos  sordas
 * Telugu: చెవిటివాళ్ళు (cheviTivaaLLu), బధిరులు (badhirulu)
 * Welsh: byddar, byddair

Derived terms

 * deaf aid
 * deaf and dumb
 * deaf-mute
 * deafen
 * deafness

Anagrams

 * EDFA
 * fade

Etymology
From, from Indo-European *undefined:. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian daf:, Old Saxon dof: (Low German dow:), Old High German toub: (German taub:), Old Norse daufr: (Swedish döv:). The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek τυφλός:.

Adjective
dēaf


 * 1) deaf