Synonyms of the word

deaf-mute

• adj. (now offensive) Unable to hear or speak.
• n. (now offensive) A person who is unable to hear or speak.

deaf

• adj. Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
• adj. Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
• adj. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
• adj. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
• n. A deaf person.
• n. (with "the") Those who are deaf, taken as a group.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To deafen.

mute

• adj. Not having the power of speech; dumb.
• adj. Silent; not making a sound.
• adj. Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt…
• adj. Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
• n. (phonetics, now historical) A stopped consonant; a stop.
• n. (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
• n. A person who does not have the power of speech.
• n. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
• n. (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for…
• v. (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
• v. (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
• v. (now rare) Of a bird: to defecate.
• n. The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
• v. (transitive) To cast off; to moult.