Dearer vs Deafer - What's the difference?
dearer | deafer |
(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
* Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer — William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXV
(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.
As adjectives the difference between dearer and deafer
is that dearer is (dear) while deafer is (deaf).As an adverb dearer
is .dearer
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* * *deafer
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* *deaf
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(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.