Deaf vs Reaf - What's the difference?
deaf | reaf |
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.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Spoil; booty; plunder, especially plunder from robbery.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) The act of practise of robbery; spoliation; depredation.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) The act of carrying off, abducting, or devouring (another).
(now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) Rapacity; greedy desire for plunder.
(now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) A thief; robber.
* 1834 August 2, Niles' Register , page 384:
* 1891 , H. A. Moriarty, Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, Westward of Longitude 80° east, including Madagascar , page 124:
As nouns the difference between deaf and reaf
is that deaf is deaf people considered as a group while reaf is spoil; booty; plunder, especially plunder from robbery.As an adjective deaf
is unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.As a verb deaf
is to deafen.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.
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
* * ----reaf
English
Etymology 1
See (m).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- A large number of vessels continued to be wrecked, and a vast amount of property is lost on the Florida reafs .
- The largest ships may pass between the outer reafs and the Black rocks.