deaf

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Unable (or partially able) to hear.
2. Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive.
3. Of or relating to the community of deaf people.
4. (obsolete) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
5. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) Decayed; tasteless; useless.

Noun

A deaf person.

Verb

To deafen.

Conceptos

sordo

mudo

🔇

silencioso

🔇

necio

obtuso

bobo

embotado

idiota

tonto

callado

resto auditivo

sordos sordas

discapacidad auditiva

pérdida auditiva

sordera

Sinónimos

dumb

hard of hearing

mute

🔇

disobedient

deafen

deafness

silent

🔇

stupid

deaf person

be hard of hearing

hollow

stubborn

deaf-mute

be stone deaf

indifferent

hearing

hearing impairment

hearing loss

idiocy

ill

🤢

inattentive

in part

insensitive

insipid

lacking

mad

obdurate

obstinate

shower

🚿

silly

unproductive

unteachable

become deaf

become mad

hearing impaired

surdity

anacusia

auditory impairment

hearing disability

be deaf

be without hearing

unhearing

having no ears

without a kernel

hearing-impaired

deaf man

bad

👎

teebowed

barren

be

Traducciones

sourd

taub

sordo

doof

surdo

sord

κουφός

gehörlos

sağır

sourde

أصم

κωφός

dove

🧏

kerr

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɛf/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: deef

Heredado de inglés antiguo: dēaf

Cognado con griego antiguo: τυφλός

In summary

From Middle English def, 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 (tuphlós, “blind”). See also dumb. Doublet of daff, dof, and dowf.