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deaf /def/ adjective
ناشنوا
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Synonyms & Related Wordsdeaf[adjective]Synonyms:- hard of hearing, stone deaf, without hearing
- oblivious, indifferent, unconcerned, unhearing, unmoved
English Thesaurus: deaf, be hard of hearing, hearing-impaire [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English Dictionarydeaf W3 /def/
adjective[
Language: Old English]
1. physically unable to hear anything or unable to hear well ⇒
hearing impaired:
communication between deaf and hearing people
I think Mum’s going a bit deaf.
She’s deaf and dumb (=unable to hear or speak) and communicates using sign language.
Tom was born profoundly deaf (=having great difficulty hearing).stone deaf/deaf as a post informal (=completely deaf) ⇒
hard of hearing,
tone-deaf2. the deaf [plural] people who are deaf:
a school for the deaf3. be deaf to something literary to be unwilling to hear or listen to something:
She was deaf to his pleas.4. turn a deaf ear (to something) to be unwilling to listen to what someone is saying or asking:
The factory owners turned a deaf ear to the demands of the workers.5. fall on deaf ears if advice or a warning falls on deaf ears, everyone ignores it
—deafness noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocationsdeaf adj. VERBS be | be born Their child was born deaf.
become, end up, go He eventually went deaf.
remain She remained deaf until she died.
leave sb, make sb Standing next to the machine all day left her deaf in one ear. ADV. very | profoundly (technical),
stone, totally Many of these children are profoundly deaf. It's no good shouting?he's stone deaf.
a little, partially, rather, slightly She spoke loudly because her mother was a little deaf.
chronically helping chronically deaf patients PREP. ~ to (figurative) The committee remained deaf to our suggestions. PHRASES deaf in one ear [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
Thesaurusdeaf adjective physically unable to hear anything, or unable to hear well:
Deaf people use sign language to communicate.be hard of hearing to have difficulty hearing things, for example because you are old:
You’ll have to speak up – she’s a bit hard of hearing.
subtitles for the hard of hearinghearing-impaired formal adjective having a permanent physical condition which makes it difficult for you to hear things:
Not all hearing-impaired people are completely deaf. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲
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