hearing-impaired

English

Adjective

hearing-impaired (comparative more hearing-impaired, superlative most hearing-impaired)

1. Having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.

   As a result of a childhood accident, my sister was hearing-impaired and had to wear a hearing aid.

Usage notes

• Within the deaf community, the terms deaf/Deaf and hard-of-hearing are usually preferred as they do not refer to the condition as an impairment.

Translations

hard of hearing

• Dutch : slechthorend (nl)
• French: malentendant (fr)
• German: hörbehindert (de)
• Icelandic: heyrnarskertur
• Italian: audioleso (it)
• Occitan: malausent, malentendent, dur d'aurelha
• Polish: niedosłyszący (pl) m, słabosłyszący (pl) m
• Swedish: hörselskadad (sv)