Definition of deaf

"deaf" in the noun sense

1. deaf

people who have severe hearing impairments

"many of the deaf use sign language"

"deaf" in the verb sense

1. deafen, deaf

make or render deaf

"a deafening noise"

"deaf" in the adjective sense

1. deaf

lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part

2. deaf, indifferent

usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed

"deaf to her warnings"

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Quotations for deaf

For mad words deaf ears. [ Proverb ]

The deaf gains the injury. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Deaf men go away with the blame. [ Proverb ]

You tell your story to a deaf man.

Obscene words must have a deaf ear. [ Proverb ]

None so deaf as he who will not hear. [ Proverb ]

Who is so deaf as he that will not hear? [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Deaf men are quick-eyed and distrustful. [ Proverb ]

None so deaf as those that will not hear. [ Mathew Henry ]

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows;
They are polluted offerings, more abhorred
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. [ William Shakespeare ]

Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. [ Dryden ]

Sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light;
A rosy garland, and a weary head. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To prayers than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calmed. [ Milton ]

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. [ Quarles ]

Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. [ Proverb ]

O that men's ears should be to counsel deaf, but not to flattery! [ Shakespeare ]

To know man, borrow the ear of the blind and the eye of the deaf. [ Lavater ]

In extreme danger, fear turns a deaf ear to every feeling of pity. [ Caesar ]

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. [ Thomas Fuller ]

To render a marriage happy, the husband should be deaf and the woman blind. [ Proverb ]

Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive. [ Aughey ]

To have the tongue cut out, and to be seated deaf and dumb in a corner, were preferable to his condition who cannot govern his tongue. [ Sadi ]

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

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The word deaf is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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deaf in Words With Friends™

The word deaf is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words containing the sequence deaf

Words that end with deaf (2 words)

Word Growth involving deaf

Shorter words in deaf

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Longer words containing deaf

deafen bedeafen bedeafened

deafen bedeafen bedeafening

deafen bedeafen bedeafens

deafen deafened bedeafened

deafen deafened undeafened

deafen deafening bedeafening

deafen deafening deafeningly

deafen deafening deafenings

deafen deafens bedeafens

deafen undeafen undeafened

deafer

deafest

deafly

deafmute deafmuteness

deafmute deafmutes

deafmutism deafmutisms

deafness

nondeaf