adj
Meaning 1
Unable to hear or speak.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, offensive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deaf
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
deaf-mute
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who is unable to hear or speak.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: offensive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deaf person
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deaf-and-dumb
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a deaf person who is unable to speak
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mute, deaf-and-dumb person
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deaf person
Narrower terms: dummy, silent person
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
82 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: sordomudu — unable to hear or speak
- Belarusian: глуханямы́ (hluxanjamý) — unable to hear or speak
- Bulgarian: глухоня́м (gluhonjám) — unable to hear or speak
- Catalan: sordmut — unable to hear or speak
- Chinese Mandarin: 聾啞 /聋哑 (lóngyǎ) — unable to hear or speak
- Czech: hluchoněmý — unable to hear or speak
- Danish: døvstum — unable to hear or speak
- Dutch: doofstom — unable to hear or speak
- Esperanto: surdmuta — unable to hear or speak
- Esperanto: surdamuta — unable to hear or speak
- Estonian: kurttumm — unable to hear or speak
- Finnish: kuuromykkä — unable to hear or speak
- French: sourd-muet — unable to hear or speak
- Galician: xordomudo — unable to hear or speak
- Georgian: ყრუ-მუნჯი (q̇ru-munǯi) — unable to hear or speak
- German: taubstumm — unable to hear or speak
- Greek: κωφάλαλος (kofálalos) — unable to hear or speak
- Hindi: मूक बधिर (mūk badhir) — unable to hear or speak
- Hungarian: süketnéma — unable to hear or speak
- Hungarian: siketnéma — unable to hear or speak
- Italian: sordomuto — unable to hear or speak
- Japanese: 聾唖の (rōa no) — unable to hear or speak
- Luxembourgish: dafstomm — unable to hear or speak
- Marathi: मूक बधिर (mūk badhir) — unable to hear or speak
- Norwegian Bokmål: døvstumme — unable to hear or speak
- Polish: głuchoniemy — unable to hear or speak
- Portuguese: surdo-mudo — unable to hear or speak
- Romanian: surdo-mut — unable to hear or speak
- Russian: глухонемо́й (gluxonemój) — unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: глувонем — unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: глухонијем — unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: gluvonem — unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: gluhonijem — unable to hear or speak
- Slovak: hluchonemý — unable to hear or speak
- Slovene: gluhonem — unable to hear or speak
- Spanish: sordomudo — unable to hear or speak
- Swedish: dövstum — unable to hear or speak
- Tagalog: pipi at bingi — unable to hear or speak
- Turkish: sağır dilsiz — unable to hear or speak
- Ukrainian: глухоніми́й (hluxonimýj) — unable to hear or speak
- Vietnamese: câm điếc — unable to hear or speak
- Catalan: sordmut — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Catalan: sordmuda — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Chinese Mandarin: 聾啞者 /聋哑者 (lóngyǎzhě) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Chinese Mandarin: 聾啞人 /聋哑人 (lóngyǎrén) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Dutch: doofstomme — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Esperanto: surdmutulo — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Esperanto: surdmutulino — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Esperanto: surdamutulo — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Esperanto: surdamutulino — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Finnish: kuuromykkä — person who is unable to hear or speak
- French: sourd-muet — person who is unable to hear or speak
- French: sourde-muette — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Galician: xordomudo — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Georgian: ყრუ-მუნჯი (q̇ru-munǯi) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- German: Taubstummer — person who is unable to hear or speak
- German: Taubstumme — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Greek: κωφάλαλος (kofálalos) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Hebrew: חירש־אילם (kheresh-ylem) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Hebrew: חירשת־אילמת (khereshet-ylemet) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Italian: sordomuto — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Italian: sordomuta — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Manx: bouyran balloo — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Polish: głuchoniemy — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Polish: głuchoniema — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Polish: osoba głuchoniema — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Portuguese: surdo-mudo — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Portuguese: surda-muda — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Romanian: surdo-mut — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Russian: глухонемо́й (gluxonemój) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Russian: глухонема́я (gluxonemája) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: gluvonemac — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: gluvonemak — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: gluvonemica — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Serbo-Croatian: gluvonemkinja — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Spanish: sordomudo — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Spanish: sordomuda — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Swedish: dövstum — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Tagalog: pipi at bingi — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Telugu: చెవిటిమూగ (ceviṭimūga) — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Turkish: sağır dilsiz — person who is unable to hear or speak
- Vietnamese: người câm điếc — person who is unable to hear or speak