Definitions for stone-deaf

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Spelling: [stohn-def]
IPA: /ˈstoʊnˈdɛf/

Stone-Deaf is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in stone-deaf (-adeefnost).

Definitions for stone-deaf

adjective

  1. totally deaf.

Origin of stone-deaf

First recorded in 1830-40; stone + deaf

Examples for stone-deaf

If there be anything visible or audible hereabout, then are we stone-blind and stone-deaf.

The only servant in the building was stone-deaf, so it would be of little use ringing for him.

"I'd have him in Castle Rushen, the stone-deaf scoundrel," shouted Kinvig.

Here sat Entwistle senior, stone-deaf, almost blind, but with his eighty-year-old wits still bright and birdlike.

But the hunchback was not stone-deaf—at least when he cared to hear.

Poor Miss Wolfe had died some years before, and had been stone-deaf at that!

To the one, she played ravishing strains, having first taken the precaution to make him stone-deaf.

Nature, to whose cries he has for so long turned a stone-deaf ear.

He spoke, if not to stone-deaf ears, to fast-deafening ears.

As I was stone-deaf in the right ear I always slept on the left side.

Word Value for stone-deaf
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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