hearing-impaired

1. 1.

   having a hearing loss

   Synonymshard-of-hearing

   Similardeaf

Questions about hearing-impaired

What does hearing-impaired mean?

hearing-impaired means "having a hearing loss".

How many syllables are in hearing-impaired?

hearing-impaired has 5 syllables: hea-rin-g-im-pai-red. The stress falls on "g-im".

What is another word for hearing-impaired?

Close synonyms include hard-of-hearing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hearing-impaired a common word?

hearing-impaired is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.