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

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Wendy Martin, who is 68 and from Oxford, is "profoundly deaf" and uses a hearing aid.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024

When a profoundly deaf child is fitted with hearing technologies the brain will hear noises for the first time without an understanding of what those noises are.

From BBC • May 23, 2024

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

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