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hard of hearing (comparative more hard of hearing, superlative most hard of hearing)
- (idiomatic) Having difficulty hearing; somewhat deaf.
- Synonyms: HoH, hearing-impaired
- Coordinate term: hard of seeing
Speak loudly, because Grandpa is somewhat hard of hearing.
having difficulty hearing
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有聽覺障礙 / 有听觉障碍 (yǒu tīngjué zhàng'ài), 耳背 (zh) (ěrbèi), 耳沉 (zh) (ěrchén)
- Danish: tunghør
- Dutch: hardhorig (nl)
- Estonian: vaegkuulmisega, kõva kuulmisega
- Finnish: huonokuuloinen (fi), kuulovikainen, heikkokuuloinen
- French: dur d’oreille (fr), malentendant (fr)
- Georgian: სმენადაქვეითებული (smenadakveitebuli)
- German: schwerhörig (de), hörgeschädigt
- Greek: βαρήκοος (el) (varíkoos)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: nagyothalló (hu)
- Icelandic: heyrnarskert n pl
- Irish: nach bhfuil an éisteacht go maith agat (literally “whose hearing is not good”)
- Italian: duro d'orecchi m, duro di timpani m, duro di udito m, debole di udito, sordastro m
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: surdaster
- Navajo: jééhkał
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tunghørt (no)
- Nynorsk: tunghøyrd
- Occitan: malausent, malentendent, dur d'aurelha
- Plautdietsch: schwoahierich
- Polish: niedosłyszący (pl), przygłuchy (pl), głuchawy, słabosłyszący (pl) m
- Portuguese: surdo (pt)
- Russian: туго́й на́ у́хо (ru) (tugój ná úxo), тугоу́хий (ru) (tugoúxij), глухова́тый (ru) (gluxovátyj)
- Spanish: duro de oído, teniente (es) (Spain, colloquial; preceded by estar)
- Swedish: lomhörd (sv), hörselskadad (sv) (hearing-impaired)
- Welsh: trwm ei glyw m, trwm ei chlyw f, trwm eu clyw pl
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