Usually means: Unable to hear; hearing impairment.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word deaf:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. deaf, the deaf: Merriam-Webster
  2. deaf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deaf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deaf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deaf: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deaf, deaf: Wordnik
  7. deaf, the deaf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Deaf, deaf: Wiktionary
  9. deaf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deaf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deaf: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deaf, the deaf: Dictionary.com
  13. deaf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deaf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deaf (album), Deaf (disambiguation), Deaf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deaf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deaf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deaf: Rhymezone
  19. deaf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deaf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Deaf: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. deaf: FreeDictionary.org
  23. deaf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. deaf: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. deaf: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. deaf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. deaf: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deaf: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. deaf: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. deaf: Medical dictionary
  5. Deaf: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DEAF: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. deaf: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deaf: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deafish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
adjective:  Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
adjective:  Of or relating to the community of deaf people.
adjective:  (obsolete) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
adjective:  (obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
noun:  (nonstandard, rare) A deaf person.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To deafen.
adjective:  Of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages.

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