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deaf 音標拼音: [d'ɛf] a. 聾的,聽不見的,充耳不聞的 聾的,聽不見的,充耳不聞的 deaf adj 1: lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part [ant: {hearing(a)}] 2: (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed; "deaf to her warnings" [synonym: {deaf(p)}, {indifferent(p)}] n 1: people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language" v 1: make or render deaf; "a deafening noise" [synonym: {deafen}, {deaf}] Deaf \Deaf\ (?; 277), v. t. To deafen. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Deaf \Deaf\ (d[e^]f or d[=e]f; 277), a. [OE. def, deaf, deef, AS. de['a]f; akin to D. doof, G. taub, Icel. daufr, Dan. d["o]v, Sw. d["o]f, Goth. daubs, and prob. to E. dumb (the original sense being, dull as applied to one of the senses), and perh. to Gr. tyflo`s (for qyflo`s) blind, ty^fos smoke, vapor, folly, and to G. toben to rage. Cf. {Dum}b.] 1. Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man. [1913 Webster] Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason. [1913 Webster] O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. [1913 Webster] Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.] [1913 Webster] A deaf murmur through the squadron went. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. --Holland. [1913 Webster] 77 Moby Thesaurus words for "deaf": authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, borne, bullheaded, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf and dumb, deaf to reason, deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, dogmatic, dull-eared, earless, fanatical, hard of hearing, headstrong, heedless, hidebound, illiberal, impervious, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insular, intractable, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mulish, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, oblivious, parochial, pertinacious, perverse, petty, pigheaded, positive, preoccupied, provincial, purblind, self-willed, shortsighted, small, small-minded, stone-deaf, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy, stunned, surd, thick of hearing, tone-deaf, uncatholic, uncharitable, unconcerned, unconscious, ungenerous, unhearing, unheedful, unliberal, unmoved, unpersuadable, unresponsive, unyielding, word-deaf |
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