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fall on deaf ears

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American soundfall on deaf ears
fallondeafears
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fall - on - deaf - ears -> fall on deaf ears

Myanmar meaning

[IDM ] ဂရုမစိုက်။ နားမထောင်။ ကျွဲပါး စောင်းတီး။

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deaf /def/ adj (-er, -est )

၁။ နားပင်းသော။ နားထိုင်းသော။ နားလေးသော။ go deaf ❍ be deaf in one ear ❍ She was born completely deaf. ❍ He's getting deafer in his old age.
၂။ ~ to sth နားမထောင် [သော]။ နားမဝင် [သော]။ be deaf to all advice/requests/entreaties.
n the deaf [pl v ] နားမကြားသူများ။ television subtitles for the deaf.
❏ deaf-aid n (Brit ) နားကြပ်။ = HEARING-AID
❏ (as) deaf as a post [IDM ] (infml ) လုံးဝ နားမကြား။ နားပင်းသည်။
❏ deaf mute n ဆွံ့အ နားမကြားသူ။
❏ deafness n [U] နားလေးခြင်း။ နားထိုင်းခြင်း။
❏ fall on deaf ears [IDM ] ဂရုမစိုက်။ နားမထောင်။ ကျွဲပါး စောင်းတီး။ All her appeals for help fell on deaf ears.
❏ turn a deaf ear (to sb/sth) [IDM ] ဂရုမစိုက်။ နား မထောင်။ She turned a deaf ear to our warnings.

More examples
  • [totally/partially deaf] : She’s been totally deaf since birth.
  • [profoundly deaf] : He has specialist training in working with profoundly deaf students.
  • [deaf in] : I’m a little deaf in one ear.
Synonyms
hard of hearing, hearing-impaired, unable to hear, bullheaded, deafened, earless, headstrong, heedless, indifferent, intractable, mulish, oblivious, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stone deaf, strong-willed, stubborn, to listen blind, tone-deaf, unaffected, unaware, unconcerned, unhearing, unmoved, unresponsive, unwilling, without hearing
Antonyms
attentive, aware, concerned, conscious, hearing, listening, mindful, willing
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hard of hearinghearing-impairedunable to hearbullheadeddeafenedearlessheadstrongheedlessindifferentintractablemulishobliviousobstinatepertinaciousperversepigheadedself-willedstone deafstrong-willedstubbornto listen blindtone-deafunaffectedunawareunconcernedunhearingunmovedunresponsive
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