deaf-and-dumb person

Questions about deaf-and-dumb person

What is another word for deaf-and-dumb person?

It depends which deaf-and-dumb person you mean. In the sense “a deaf person who is unable to speak”, the synonyms are mute, deaf-mute. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of deaf-and-dumb person?

WordNet records no antonym for deaf-and-dumb person. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for deaf-and-dumb person come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of deaf-and-dumb person

• Full entry for deaf-and-dumb personAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for deaf-and-dumb personWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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