THESAURUS
deaf
authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blind, borne, bullheaded, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound,
deaf and dumb,
deaf to reason,
deaf-eared,
deaf-mute, deafened, dogmatic, dull-eared, earless, fanatical, hard of hearing, headstrong, heedless, hidebound, illiberal, impervious, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insular, intractable, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mulish, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, oblivious, parochial, pertinacious, perverse, petty, pigheaded, positive, preoccupied, provincial, purblind, self-willed, shortsighted, small, small-minded, stone-
deaf, straitlaced, stubborn, stuffy, stunned, surd, thick of hearing, tone-
deaf, uncatholic, uncharitable, unconcerned, unconscious, ungenerous, unhearing, unheedful, unliberal, unmoved, unpersuadable, unresponsive, unyielding, word-
deaf
ROGET THESAURUS
deaf
Deafness
N
deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity, inaudibility, inaudibleness,
deaf, earless, surd, hard of hearing, dull of hearing,
deaf-mute, stunned, deafened, stone
deaf,
deaf as a post,
deaf as an adder,
deaf as a beetle,
deaf as a trunkmaker, inaudible, out of hearing, hear no evil, (6) Light (i) LIGHT IN GENERAL.
Inattention
N
inattention, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, oversight, inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard, supineness, etourderie, want of thought, heedlessness, insouciance, abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction, inattentive, unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning, inadvertent, mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind,
deaf, bird-witted, hand over head, cursory, percursory, giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele, offhand, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick, giddy, giddy as a goose, wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying, heedless, careless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted, distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought, rapt, in the clouds, bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied, engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard, napping, dreamy, caught napping, disconcerted, distracted, put out, inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly, per incuriam, sub silentio, Int, stand at ease, stand easy!, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you.