Synonyms: deaf
Definition: people who have severe hearing impairments
Usage: many of the deaf use sign language
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Definition: make or render deaf
Usage: a deafening noise
Similar words: desensitise, desensitize
Definition: cause not to be sensitive
Usage: The war desensitized many soldiers; The photographic plate was desensitized
Synonyms: deaf
Definition: lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
Similar words: deaf-and-dumb, deaf-mute
Definition: lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak
Similar words: deafened
Definition: caused to hear poorly or not at all
Similar words: hearing-impaired, hard-of-hearing
Definition: having a hearing loss
Similar words: deaf as a post, profoundly deaf, unhearing, stone-deaf
Definition: totally deaf; unable to hear anything
Similar words: tone-deaf
Definition: unable to appreciate music
Synonyms: indifferent, deaf
Definition: (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
Usage: deaf to her warnings
Similar words: heedless, unheeding
Definition: marked by or paying little heed or attention
Usage: We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics--Franklin D. Roosevelt; heedless of danger; heedless of the child's crying