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Dearest vs Deafest - What's the difference?

dearest | deafest |

As adjectives the difference between dearest and deafest

is that dearest is superlative of dear while deafest is superlative of deaf.

As a noun dearest

is a beloved person; a term of endearment.

dearest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dear)
  • * So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, / Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth. — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVII

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beloved person; a term of endearment.

    • Synonyms

    * beloved * honey * darling * sweetheart

    Anagrams

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    deafest

    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)

    Anagrams

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