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What is the adjective for deaf?

What's the adjective for deaf? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs deafen and deaf which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

deaf
  1. Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
  2. Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
  3. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
  4. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “He has been in India ever since, setting up his own center for the deaf at Nambikkai, on the country's southern tip.”
      “As I said last weekend, it's easy to become deaf to the sirens in Hackney.”
      “Your ears seem deaf to my pleas as well as to the pleas of others.”
deafening
deafish
  1. Somewhat deaf.
deafer
deafest
deafened
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