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hearing-impaired

hearing-impaired adjective: having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.

Adjective

hearing-impaired (comparative more hearing-impaired, superlative most hearing-impaired)

  1. Having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.
    • As a result of a childhood accident, my sister was hearing-impaired and had to wear a hearing aid.

hearing-impaired meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

hearing-impaired in Tamil

கேட்புத்திறன் குறைந்த

hearing-impaired in Indonesian

hard of hearing
tunarungu

Forms of hearing-impaired

comparativemore hearing-impaired
superlativemost hearing-impaired

Questions about hearing-impaired

What does hearing-impaired mean?
Hearing-impaired means having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.
What is hearing-impaired in Tamil?
Hearing-impaired in Tamil is கேட்புத்திறன் குறைந்த. See Hearing-impaired meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hearing-impaired?
Hearing-impaired is an adjective.

Words near hearing-impaired in the dictionary

  1. hearing trumpet
  2. hearing trumpets
  3. hearing voices
  4. hearing-ear dog
  5. hearing-ear dogs
  6. hearing-impaired
  7. hearingless
  8. hearingly
  9. hearings
  10. heark
  11. hearked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hearing-impaired (page history and authors); hearing-impaired (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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