Meanings
unhearing1
- not comparableNot hearing.
Camille said, as if unhearing, "Of course Apollo isn't with us permanently, you know!"
2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 2721 more example
[She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 179Antonyms: hearing
unhearing2
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unhear
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot hearing.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivetotally deaf; unable to hear anything
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
unhearing · adjective
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishhearing
- Englishunhearing
Cite this entry
unhearing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhearing
“unhearing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhearing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhearing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhearing.
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