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• lacking the power of hearing or having impaired hearing.

• "I'm a bit deaf so you'll have to speak up"

Similar: hard of hearing, hearing-impaired, with impaired hearing, unhearing, stone deaf, deafened, profoundly deaf, deaf as a post,

Origin: Old English dēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch doof and German taub, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tuphlos ‘blind’.

• having very bad hearing.

• (of a statement or request) be ignored.
"their pleas fell on deaf ears"

• refuse to listen or respond to a statement or request.
"he turned a deaf ear to all appeals"