stone-deaf

[ stohn-def ]

/ ˈstoʊnˈdɛf /

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adjective

totally deaf.

Words nearby stone-deaf

stone-, stone-blind, stone-broke, stone-cold, stone-dead, stone-deaf, stone-ground, stone-hearted, stone-lily, stoneboat, stonecast

Origin of stone-deaf

First recorded in 1830–40; stone + deaf

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Examples from the Web for stone-deaf

Poor Miss Wolfe had died some years before, and had been stone-deaf at that!
Old Friends and New|Sarah Orne Jewett
To the one, she played ravishing strains, having first taken the precaution to make him stone-deaf.
Diary of a Pilgrimage|Jerome K. Jerome
I noticed the stone-deaf man, the twisted oaf whose face I have described as being that of an ill-treated and feeble-minded faun.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore|Jack London
I believed him stone-deaf till, on roaring with all the power of my lungs, he answered "Yes."
The Frozen Pirate|W. Clark Russell

John's resources were dried up, and the spectre of want loomed upon him, unbribeable and stone-deaf.
The Growth of a Soul|August Strindberg

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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