耳聋 — meaning in English

English meaning

• hollow noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
• obtuse adj Slow to understand or notice things that seem obvious to others.
• voiceless adj Having no voice or making no vocal sound.

Senses

耳聋 is used for these senses in English:

• hollow (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
• obtuse Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
• voiceless (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].

hollow — full definition

1. noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
2. noun An empty space or cavity inside something.
3. adj Having an empty space inside; not solid.
4. adj Insincere or lacking real meaning or substance.
5. verb To dig or carve out a hole or cavity in something.

obtuse — full definition

1. adj Slow to understand or notice things that seem obvious to others.
2. adj Of an angle: greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
3. adj Blunt or rounded rather than sharp or pointed.

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