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Deaf vs Deft - What's the difference?

deaf | deft |

As adjectives the difference between deaf and deft

is that deaf is unable to hear, or only partially able to hear while deft is quick and neat in action; skillful.

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

    * * ----

    deft

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Quick and neat in action; skillful
  • He assembled it in one fluid, deft motion.

    See also

    * daft