Stone-deaf is an adjective used to describe someone who is completely deaf. Some antonyms of the word "stone-deaf" are certain, sharp-eared or keen-eared, and quick-eared. These antonyms have opposite meanings to the term "stone-deaf," implying that an individual has excellent auditory skills. Certain implies that one has no auditory deficiencies, making it antonymous with stone-deaf, which indicates a complete loss of hearing ability. Sharp-eared, keen-eared, or quick-eared refer to people that have excellent listening abilities, which oppose the attribute of being stone-deaf. Other antonyms for stone-deaf are sound-sensitive, hearable, attentive, and listening.

What are the antonyms for Stone-deaf?

• adj.

  • noun
  • hearing
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Famous quotes with Stone-deaf

• Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better melody in the April woods at dawn than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

  Robert Bridges

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