deaf

Meanings

Adjective

  • Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
  • Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
  • Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
  • Decayed; tasteless; dead.

Noun

  • A deaf person.

Verb

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Origin

  • From Middle English deef, from Old English dēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ("to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure"). Cognate with Ancient Greek τυφλός ("blind"). See also dumb.

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