stone deaf

See also: stone-deaf

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

stone deaf (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Utterly deaf.

   Synonyms: deaf as a doorknob, deaf as a doorpost, deaf as a post

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

Translations

utterly deaf

• Bulgarian: напълно глух (napălno 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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