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Dearer vs Deafer - What's the difference?

dearer | deafer |

As adjectives the difference between dearer and deafer

is that dearer is (dear) while deafer is (deaf).

As an adverb dearer

is .

dearer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dear)
  • * 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, / A dearer birth than this his love had brought, / To march in ranks of better equipage: — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXII
  • Adverb

    (head)
  • * Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer — William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXV
  • Anagrams

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    deafer

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (deaf)
  • Anagrams

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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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