Not able to hear

The answer

DEAF

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEAF answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DEAF

Every other clue in this collection answered by DEAF, most used first.

• Unhearing - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Unheeding - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Unwilling to listen - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
• Unable to hear - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Refusing to listen - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Heedless - used 19 times, most recently in 2017
• Hearing-impaired - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Like The Who's Tommy - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Like some signers - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Fall on ___ ears - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Like Beethoven - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Like many signers - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Like Helen Keller - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Tone-___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Turn a __ ear to - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• If not - ELSE, used 199 times
• Not "fer" - AGIN, used 181 times
• Not pro - ANTI, used 172 times
• Not so much - LESS, used 171 times

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