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profoundly deaf

British  

adjective

  1. unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear

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Rachel Duke, 38, from Hull, said she was a sixth-generation member of a profoundly deaf family.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

She began signing when her younger sister was diagnosed profoundly deaf aged five.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Eli Lilly announced this week, for example, that a profoundly deaf boy from Morocco given its treatment as part of a clinical trial in Philadelphia can now hear.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 26, 2024

Shuttleworth, age 40, a resident of Manchester, England, is profoundly deaf in both ears and uses a mobile live audio transcription app as his main conversational tool.

From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2023

In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall