Deafer vs Deffer - What's the difference?
deafer | deffer |
(deaf)
Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
* Shakespeare
Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
* Dryden
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
* Holland
Deaf people considered as a group.
(def)
deficit
definitely
definition
(US, slang) very good (short for "definitive" or "definitely")
daf
tambourine
As adjectives the difference between deafer and deffer
is that deafer is comparative of deaf while deffer is comparative of def.deafer
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* *deaf
English
Adjective
(er)- Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
- Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
- Those people are deaf to reason.
- O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
- A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
- a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
- (Halliwell)
- If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.