It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Source: tatoeba (1858)
Deaf
//dɛf//
Synonyms for "deaf" (133 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (40)
Verb(1 words)
Adjective(17 words)
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Adjective(1 words)
Related words (66)
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3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
2 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
242 translations across 158 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- адагәа adj (unable to hear)
Adyghe
1 entries- дэгу adj (unable to hear)
Afrikaans
1 entries- dowe adj (unable to hear)
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐕆𐔼𐕒𐔽𐔰 adj (unable to hear)
Aklanon
1 entries- bungoe adj (unable to hear)
Albanian
1 entries- i shurdhër adj (unable to hear)
American Sign Language
1 entries- 1@Jaw 1@Chin adj (unable to hear)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κωφός adj (unable to hear)
Arabic
4 entries- أصم adj (unable to hear)
- أطرش adj (unable to hear)
- أَصَمّ adj (unable to hear)
- أَطْرَش adj (unable to hear)
Aragonese
1 entries- xordo adj (unable to hear)
Armenian
1 entries- խուլ adj (unable to hear)
Aromanian
1 entries- surdu adj (unable to hear)
Assamese
2 entries- অন্ধ adj (unable to hear)
- কলা adj (unable to hear)
Asturian
2 entries- sordu adj (unable to hear)
- xordu adj (unable to hear)
Auslan
1 entries- 1@Ear 1@Mouth adj (unable to hear)
Avar
1 entries- гӏинкъаб adj (unable to hear)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kar adj (unable to hear)
Balinese
1 entries- bongol adj (unable to hear)
Bashkir
1 entries- һаңғырау adj (unable to hear)
Basque
1 entries- gor adj (unable to hear)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- bongam adj (unable to hear)
Belarusian
1 entries- глухі́ adj (unable to hear)
Bikol Central
1 entries- bungog adj (unable to hear)
Breton
1 entries- bouzar adj (unable to hear)
British Sign Language
1 entries- H@Ear adj (unable to hear)
Bulgarian
1 entries- глух adj (unable to hear)
Burmese
1 entries- နားပင်း adj (unable to hear)
Catalan
2 entries- els sords adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- sord adj (unable to hear)
Cebuano
1 entries- bungol adj (unable to hear)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- کەڕ adj (unable to hear)
- کەڕ adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Central Malay
1 entries- pekak adj (unable to hear)
Central Melanau
2 entries- pakeak adj (unable to hear)
- tulek adj (unable to hear)
Chamicuro
1 entries- majchayi adj (unable to hear)
Chechen
1 entries- къора adj (unable to hear)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏧᎵᎡᎾ adj (unable to hear)
Chinese
1 entries- 耳聾 /耳聋 adj (unable to hear)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 耳聾 /耳聋 adj (unable to hear)
- 聾 /聋 adj (unable to hear)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 耳聾 /耳聋 adj (unable to hear)
- 聾 /聋 adj (unable to hear)
Cornish
1 entries- bodhar adj (unable to hear)
Corsican
1 entries- sordu adj (unable to hear)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- sağır adj (unable to hear)
Czech
1 entries- hluchý adj (unable to hear)
Dalmatian
1 entries- suard adj (unable to hear)
Danish
1 entries- døv adj (unable to hear)
Dutch
4 entries- doof adj (unable to hear)
- dove adj (unable to hear)
- doven adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- doven adj (relating to the culture of deaf signers)
Esperanto
1 entries- surda adj (unable to hear)
Estonian
1 entries- kurt adj (unable to hear)
Faroese
1 entries- deyvur adj (unable to hear)
Finnish
2 entries- kuulovammainen adj (unable to hear)
- kuuro adj (unable to hear)
French
2 entries- les sourds adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- sourd adj (unable to hear)
Friulian
2 entries- sord adj (unable to hear)
- sort adj (unable to hear)
Galician
2 entries- mouco adj (unable to hear)
- xordo adj (unable to hear)
Georgian
2 entries- სმენადაკარგული adj (unable to hear)
- ყრუ adj (unable to hear)
German
4 entries- die Gehörlosen adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- die Tauben adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- gehörlos adj (unable to hear)
- taub adj (unable to hear)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 adj (unable to hear)
Greek
3 entries- κουφός adj (unable to hear)
- κωφός adj (unable to hear)
- κωφός adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- soud adj (unable to hear)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kuli adj (unable to hear)
Hebrew
2 entries- חֵירֵשׁ adj (unable to hear)
- חירשים adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Higaonon
1 entries- bungol adj (unable to hear)
Hindi
1 entries- बहरा adj (unable to hear)
Hungarian
2 entries- (PC) siket adj (unable to hear)
- süket adj (unable to hear)
Hunsrik
1 entries- daab adj (unable to hear)
Iban
1 entries- achak adj (unable to hear)
Icelandic
4 entries- daufur adj (unable to hear)
- döff adj (relating to the culture of deaf signers)
- heyrnarlaus adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- heyrnarlaus adj (relating to the culture of deaf signers)
Indonesian
2 entries- tuli adj (unable to hear)
- tuna rungu adj (unable to hear)
Ingrian
1 entries- gluuhkoi adj (unable to hear)
Irish
1 entries- bodhar adj (unable to hear)
Istriot
1 entries- surdo adj (unable to hear)
Italian
3 entries- i non udenti adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- i sordi adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- sordo adj (unable to hear)
Japanese
4 entries- ろう adj (relating to the culture of deaf signers)
- 耳が不自由 adj (unable to hear)
- 耳の聞こえない adj (unable to hear)
- 聴覚障害者 adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Javanese
2 entries- budheg adj (unable to hear)
- jampeng adj (unable to hear)
Jeju
1 entries- 귀막다 adj (unable to hear)
Kabardian
1 entries- дэгу adj (unable to hear)
Kashmiri
1 entries- زۆر adj (unable to hear)
Kazakh
1 entries- саңырау adj (unable to hear)
Khinalug
1 entries- баьш adj (unable to hear)
Khmer
1 entries- ថ្លង់ adj (unable to hear)
Korean
2 entries- 귀먹다 adj (unable to hear)
- 농인 adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Ladin
1 entries- sëurt adj (unable to hear)
Ladino
1 entries- sodro adj (unable to hear)
Lao
1 entries- ຫູໜວກ adj (unable to hear)
Latgalian
1 entries- kūrslys adj (unable to hear)
Latin
1 entries- surdus adj (unable to hear)
Latvian
2 entries- kurls adj (unable to hear)
- nedzirdīgs adj (unable to hear)
Lezgi
1 entries- биши adj (unable to hear)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kurčias adj (unable to hear)
Low German
1 entries- dow adj (unable to hear)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- głuchy adj (unable to hear)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- daf adj (unable to hear)
Macedonian
1 entries- глув adj (unable to hear)
Malay
4 entries- congek adj (unable to hear)
- pekak adj (unable to hear)
- tuli adj (unable to hear)
- tunakerna adj (unable to hear)
Maltese
1 entries- trux adj (unable to hear)
Manchu
2 entries- ᠮᠠᡳᡤᡠ adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- ᡩᡠᡨᡠ adj (unable to hear)
Mansaka
1 entries- bungul adj (unable to hear)
Maranao
2 entries- bengel adj (unable to hear)
- biso adj (unable to hear)
Marathi
2 entries- बधीर adj (unable to hear)
- बहिरा adj (unable to hear)
Middle English
3 entries- def adj (unable to hear)
- def adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- def adj (unwilling to listen)
Minangkabau
1 entries- pakak adj (unable to hear)
Mingrelian
4 entries- დაგუ̂ა adj (unable to hear)
- ჸუნგა adj (unable to hear)
- ჸურუ adj (unable to hear)
- ჸუჯა adj (unable to hear)
Mongolian
1 entries- дүлий adj (unable to hear)
Musi
2 entries- peka' adj (unable to hear)
- tulo' adj (unable to hear)
Māori
3 entries- pihoi adj (unwilling to listen)
- pūwharawhara adj (unable to hear)
- turi adj (unable to hear)
Navajo
2 entries- ajéékałgo ąąh dahazʼą́ adj (unable to hear)
- jééhkał adj (unable to hear)
Ngarrindjeri
1 entries- plombatji adj (unable to hear)
North Frisian
1 entries- duuf adj (unable to hear)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- guhgiran adj (unable to hear)
- kerr adj (unable to hear)
Northern Sami
1 entries- bealjeheapmi adj (unable to hear)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- døv adj (unable to hear)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- dauv adj (unable to hear)
- døv adj (unable to hear)
Occitan
1 entries- sord adj (unable to hear)
Odia
1 entries- ବଧିର adj (unable to hear)
Old English
1 entries- dēaf adj (unable to hear)
Old Irish
1 entries- bodar adj (unable to hear)
Old Javanese
1 entries- buḍĕg adj (unable to hear)
Oromo
1 entries- duudaa adj (unable to hear)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صاغر adj (unable to hear)
Pashto
2 entries- کوڼ adj (unable to hear)
- کوڼ adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Persian
2 entries- ناشنوا adj (unable to hear)
- کر adj (unable to hear)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- doof adj (unable to hear)
Polish
2 entries- głuchy adj (unable to hear)
- głusi adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Portuguese
3 entries- mouco adj (unable to hear)
- surdo adj (unable to hear)
- surdos adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Romanian
1 entries- surd adj (unable to hear)
Russian
2 entries- глухие adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- глухо́й adj (unable to hear)
Sanskrit
2 entries- कल्ल adj (unable to hear)
- बधिर adj (unable to hear)
Sardinian
2 entries- suldu adj (unable to hear)
- surdu adj (unable to hear)
Scots
1 entries- deif adj (unable to hear)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bodhar adj (unable to hear)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gluh adj (unable to hear)
- gluhe adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- gluhi adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- gluv adj (unable to hear)
Sinhalese
1 entries- බිහිරි adj (unable to hear)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- kluuǥǥai adj (unable to hear)
Slovak
2 entries- hluchý adj (unable to hear)
- nepočujúci adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Slovene
2 entries- gluh adj (unable to hear)
- gluhi adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Spanish
3 entries- sordas adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- sordo adj (unable to hear)
- sordos adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Sundanese
1 entries- torék adj (unable to hear)
Svan
2 entries- ყუ̂რიუ̂ adj (unable to hear)
- ყუგ adj (unable to hear)
Swahili
1 entries- viziwi adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Swedish
3 entries- döv adj (unable to hear)
- döv adj (relating to the culture of deaf signers)
- döva adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Tagalog
1 entries- bingi adj (unable to hear)
Tajik
1 entries- кар adj (unable to hear)
Talysh
1 entries- kor adj (unable to hear)
Telugu
3 entries- చెవిటి adj (unable to hear)
- చెవిటివాళ్ళు adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- బధిరులు adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Thai
1 entries- หูหนวก adj (unable to hear)
Tibetan
1 entries- འོན་པ adj (unable to hear)
Tlingit
1 entries- lkhool.áxhji adj (unable to hear)
Turkish
2 entries- sağır adj (unable to hear)
- sağırlar adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
Ubykh
1 entries- дагәы adj (unable to hear)
Ukrainian
1 entries- глухи́й adj (unable to hear)
Urdu
1 entries- بہرا adj (unable to hear)
Venetan
1 entries- sórdo adj (unable to hear)
Vietnamese
1 entries- điếc adj (unable to hear)
Volapük
1 entries- surdik adj (unable to hear)
Welsh
3 entries- byddair adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
- byddar adj (unable to hear)
- byddar adj (unable to hear, used as a substantive: deaf people considered as a group)
West-Frisian
1 entries- dôf adj (unable to hear)
Yaghnobi
1 entries- кар adj (unable to hear)
Yiddish
3 entries- חושימדיק adj (unable to hear)
- טויב adj (unable to hear)
- טויבלעך adj (unable to hear)
Yoruba
1 entries- dití adj (unable to hear)
Yup'ik
1 entries- niitesciigatelria adj (unable to hear)
Sample sentences
30 total sentences available.
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb.
Source: tatoeba (33855)
Helen Keller was deaf and blind.
Source: tatoeba (33856)
Beethoven was deaf in his late years.
Source: tatoeba (34023)
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