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profoundly deaf

British

adjective

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

Jodie, who is profoundly deaf and was fitted with a cochlear implant at a young age, credits their support for shaping who she is today.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

Lucy, 22, was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf at nine months.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 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

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