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Deader vs Deafer - What's the difference?

deader | deafer |

As adjectives the difference between deader and deafer

is that deader is comparative of dead; or at least more evidently dead while deafer is comparative of deaf.

As a noun deader

is one who is deceased, or will shortly become so.

deader

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (figuratively, humorous) (dead); or at least more evidently dead.
  • He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.
  • * 1920 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=131150698&tag=Burroughs,+Edgar+Rice,+1875-1950:+Tarzan+the+Untamed,+1920&query=deader&id=BurUnta]
  • Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me," he thought. "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."
  • * 1920 , Sinclair Lewis, Main Street [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0KTdN_6ZVqc1HOWGlanRBZU&id=66VaLHf1LY4C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=deader&as_brr=1]
  • The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot...

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (figurative or humorous, informal) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
  • I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
  • * 1887 , Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=278572930&textreg=1&query=deader&id=DoyScar]
  • *:"No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother."
  • *:"Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
  • *:"Yes, they all went except you and me...
  • deafer

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (deaf)
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    deaf

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
  • * Dryden
  • Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
  • Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
  • Those people are deaf to reason.
  • * Shakespeare
  • O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
  • Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
  • * Dryden
  • A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
  • a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
    (Halliwell)
  • * Holland
  • If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.

    Synonyms

    * hard of hearing * hearing-impaired

    Derived terms

    * turn a deaf ear * stone deaf * fall on deaf ears

    See also

    * inaudible (unable to be heard ) * anosmic * blind

    Noun

  • Deaf people considered as a group.
  • Derived terms

    * deaf aid * deaf and dumb * deaf-mute * deafen * deafness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To deafen.
  • (Dryden)

    See also

    * (pedia) * (Deaf culture)

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