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stone-deaf
[ stohn-def ]
/ ˈstoʊnˈdɛf /
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adjective
totally deaf.
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British Dictionary definitions for stone-deaf
stone-deaf
adjective
completely deaf
usage for stone-deaf
Use of this word to refer to people with serious hearing difficulties is potentially very offensive: preferred form: profoundly deaf
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Other Idioms and Phrases with stone-deaf
stone deaf
Totally unable to hear, as in Poor Grandpa, in the last year he's become stone deaf. [First half of 1800s]
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