Definition of "hard-of-hearing" []

• Having a reduced ability to hear, but not fully deaf; partly deaf. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "His worst injury was to his right eardrum: the blast left him hard-of-hearing for life."
• "Are you trying to encourage hard-of-hearing folks to boycott you?"
• "Aposhian, a professor at the University of Arizona whom Allen described as “an elderly, hard-of-hearing toxicologist with a halo of white hair surrounding his large bald pate,” had written an expert report detailing how thimerosal caused “injury to the developing brains of human embryos and young children” such as Michelle."