Definition of "stone-deaf" []

• Completely deaf. (adjective)

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• "The feeble-minded faun (the stone-deaf man) led the way to Mr. Pike's assistance, followed by Tony, the suicidal Greek."
• "I noticed the stone-deaf man, the twisted oaf whose face I have described as being that of an ill-treated and feeble-minded faun."
• "He did not know what had occurred, and, being stone-deaf, had thought the rush aft a response to a call for all hands."