Definition of Deaf

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Definition of Deaf

Deaf

Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.

Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.

Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.

Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.

To deafen.

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Deaf Quotations

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore de Balzac

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
Larry David

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Frank Herbert

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

Deaf Translations

deaf in Afrikaans is doof
deaf in Dutch is doof
deaf in Finnish is kuuro
deaf in French is sourd
deaf in Portuguese is surdo
deaf in Spanish is sordo

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