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 and divides as hea-rin-g-im-pai-red under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.