Deaf vs Dum - What's the difference?
deaf | dum |
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.
cooked with steam
* 2012 , Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Who is the Doctor
As adjectives the difference between deaf and dum
is that deaf is of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages while dum is cooked with steam.As an interjection dum is
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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.
Synonyms
* hard of hearing * hearing-impairedDerived terms
* turn a deaf ear * stone deaf * fall on deaf earsSee also
* inaudible (unable to be heard ) * anosmic * blindNoun
Derived terms
* deaf aid * deaf and dumb * deaf-mute * deafen * deafnessSee also
* (pedia) * (Deaf culture)Anagrams
* * ----dum
English
Adjective
(-)Interjection
(en interjection)- I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who''. ''Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.