Definition of Semideaf

1. Adjective. Very (soplink hard of hearing): nearly deaf. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Semideaf

1. partly deaf [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semideaf

semicrista
semicrista incisiva
semicritical
semicrustaceous
semicrystalline
semicubical
semicured
semicustomized
semicyclic
semicylinder
semicylinders
semicylindric
semicylindrical
semidarkness
semidarknesses
semideaf (current term)
semidecidable
semidecision
semidecussation
semidefinite
semideified
semideifies
semideify
semideifying
semidemiquaver
semidemiquavers
semidemisemiquaver
semiderelict
semidesert
semideserts

Literary usage of Semideaf

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Exercise in Education and Medicine by Robert Tait McKenzie (1915)
"From this number 16 were excluded, classed as semideaf. Of those remaining, 27 were congenitally deaf and 17 were ..."

2. Educational Hygiene, from the Preschool Period to the University by Louis Win Rapeer (1915)
"Deaf and semideaf. 3. Delinquents, including persistent truants. 4. High-grade imbeciles (Barr's classification). 5. All feeble-minded children of higher ..."

3. Special Collections in Libraries in the United States by William Johnston, Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1912)
"... collection of works In the world on deafness and the deaf, their education and life problems. The literature of all classes of the deaf, the semideaf, ..."

4. Training of Teachers of Elementary and Secondary Mathematics: The American by United States, Bureau of Education (1911)
"In the following table the caption "Blind" includes classes for semi- blind, "Deaf" includes classes for semideaf, and "Stammerers" includes classes for ..."

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