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
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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 thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
Loretta Young
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
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
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
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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