unhearing
8.2
Not able to hear anything
- adjective
- /ʌnˈhɪrɪŋ/
- Archaic
:
sordo
- Despite the noise of the city, the unhearing woman sat peacefully in her garden.
Examples
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His unhearing condition made it difficult for him to participate in conversations.
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Was he to cry to an unhearing world, to live his last days in the knowledge that the nations had turned silently away while millions died?
Fiction book (1991) -
The unhearing man could not hear the joyful sounds of the children playing outside.
Synonyms
deaf
vsunhearing
212
1.0
Not able to hear, completely or partly
specifies total loss rather than partial or variable hearing ability
2
3.9
Cannot hear at all
is the same meaning expressed with different wording
2
8.6
Unable to hear anything at all
is the same idea described with different words
stone-deaf
vsunhearing
1
6.7
Unable to hear anything at all
is the same meaning but uses alternative phrasing
deafened
vsunhearing
4.7
No longer able to hear because of loud noise or injury
refers to complete inability without focusing on cause or how it started
How Deaf
Surface Forms
unhearing positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word unhearing is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and hearing from hear meaning 'to listen', so it literally means 'not hearing'. That's why unhearing describes someone or something that cannot hear or seems not to listen.