Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hearing-impaired

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables
hear-ing-im-paired
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

more hearing-impaired (comparative) most hearing-impaired (superlative)

Synonyms

hard-of-hearing

Questions

What does hearing-impaired mean?
Having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.

How to pronounce hearing-impaired

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