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Deaf vs Deef - What's the difference?

deaf | deef |

As adjectives the difference between deaf and deef

is that deaf is unable to hear, or only partially able to hear while deef is deaf.

As a noun deaf

is deaf people considered as a group.

As a verb deaf

is to deafen.

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)

    Anagrams

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    deef

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) deaf
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • Then the captain sung out "Stand away!" and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.
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