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Not able to hear
Answer for the clue "Not able to hear ", 4 letters:
deaf
Alternative clues for the word deaf
Word definitions for deaf in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English deaf "deaf," also "empty, barren," specialized from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (cognates: Old Saxon dof , Old Norse daufr , Old Frisian daf , Dutch doof "deaf," German taub , Gothic daufs "deaf, insensate"), from PIE dheubh- , which was used to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be born blind/deaf etc (= be blind, deaf etc when born ) deaf mute go mad/deaf/bald etc ▪ He went crazy and tried to kill her. stone deaf COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB profoundly ▪ People born profoundly deaf ...
Usage examples of deaf.
Now the Adar of the Ildiran Solar Navy was becoming blind and deaf to a comforting foundation he had always taken for granted.
The Adar felt as if he had gone deaf in his heart and mind, and he struggled to maintain his courage.
Bringing up the rear: a four-horned antelope that had been born with six horns, a baby one-horned rhinoceros, and a Bhalu, or honey bear, blind and deaf, but drawn by the scent of sweet things in the market.
Even the high priest, to whom in her extremity she might have turned for succour, would be deaf to her appeal, for he was bound by ties of blood to the house of Bharata Rahon and would be the willing and eager tool of his kinsman.
He now dabbled freely in the blackest arts just to see what would happen, his ears deaf to screams and pleas for mercy.
The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.
It was on its third quart-sized mug of Demerara Sours, and its sense cluster had been retracted for all of that time, leaving it deaf and blind, lost in its own thoughts.
Bebe was a red Doberman who had gradually gone deaf, perhaps as a result of being too close to a can of TNT thrown at a demolition exercise at Lejeune.
Karigan had spoken of Estral, saying that she was deaf in one ear from an accident, but still a fabulous musician.
Deaf to her pitiful pleadings, I placed myself in position to command her backside, raised the whip, and gave her a cut right across the fleshiest part.
The germinally blind and deaf will particularly occur to mind in the latter connection.
It is a sign of constitutional weakness, for the children of goitred parents are usually deaf and dumb, and the succeeding generation idiots.
Monitoring each other, in their masks and helmets, they were almost deaf to outside noises unless they deliberately amplified them.
She was blind, and deaf, and her senses of smell and taste and touch and proprioception vanished.
The chairman pleaded and argued, but, deaf to all entreaty, men plowed their way through the throng and rained checks of gold coin into the cart and skurried away for more.