profoundly deaf

1. 1.

   totally deaf; unable to hear anything

   Synonymsstone-deafdeaf as a postunhearing

   Similardeaf

Questions about profoundly deaf

What does profoundly deaf mean?

profoundly deaf means "totally deaf; unable to hear anything".

What is another word for profoundly deaf?

Close synonyms include stone-deaf, deaf as a post, unhearing. 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 profoundly deaf a common word?

profoundly deaf 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.