stone deaf

See also: stone-deaf

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

stone deaf (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Utterly deaf.

   Years of working under such noisy conditions ultimately left him stone deaf.

Synonyms

• deaf as a doorknob
• deaf as a doorpost
• deaf as a post

Translations

utterly deaf

Bulgarian: напълно глух (napǎlno gluh) Catalan: sord com una tàpia (ca) Czech: hluchý jako pařez Dutch: potdoof (nl), stokdoof (nl) Finnish: umpikuuro French: sourd comme un pot (fr) German: stocktaub (de) Hungarian: süket, mint az ágyú, teljesen süket Italian: sordo come una campana Norwegian: Bokmål: stokk døv (no) Polish: głuchy jak pień (pl) Russian: глухо́й как пень (gluxój kak penʹ) Scottish Gaelic: cho bodhar ri clach, cho bodhar ris an talamh, cho bodhar ris na cnuic, cho bodhar ri gobhar as t-fhoghar Serbo-Croatian: глув као топ Spanish: sordo como una tapia, como una tapia Swedish: stendöv (sv)

See also

• tone-deaf

Anagrams

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