Synonyms for earless

Grammar : Adj

Spell : eer

Phonetic Transcription : ɪər

Définition of earless

Origin : "organ of hearing," Old English eare "ear," from Proto-Germanic *auzon (cf. Old Norse eyra, Danish øre, Old Frisian are, Old Saxon ore, Middle Dutch ore, Dutch oor, Old High German ora, German Ohr, Gothic auso), from PIE *ous- with a sense of "perception" (cf. Greek aus, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausis, Old Church Slavonic ucho, Old Irish au "ear," Avestan usi "the two ears"). The belief that itching or burning ears means someone is talking about you is mentioned in Pliny's "Natural History" (77 C.E.). Until at least the 1880s, even some medical men still believed piercing the ear lobes improved one's eyesight. Meaning "handle of a pitcher" is mid-15c. (but cf. Old English earde "having a handle"). To be wet behind the ears "naive" is implied from 1914. Phrase walls have ears attested from 1610s. Ear-bash (v.) is Australian slang (1944) for "to talk inordinately" (to someone).

As in deaf : adj without hearing

Example sentences :

Dim as the light was, I could distinguish the upright form to be that of the earless trapper.
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

They were eyeless but not blind, earless, but not without hearing.
Extract from : « Black Amazon of Mars » by Leigh Brackett

The great Daniel De Foe did stand on high on a pillory, but he was not earless.
Extract from : « Curious Punishments of Bygone Days » by Alice Morse Earle

Lastly, in what deaf catacomb, in what earless desert, does the beginner pass the excruciating interval of his apprenticeship?
Extract from : « The Wrong Box » by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

Self-elected saints with gloomy brows, this sightless, earless, voiceless child may teach you lessons you will do well to follow.
Extract from : « American Notes for General Circulation » by Charles Dickens

And this the dull dunces—the eyeless, earless, brainless and bloodless callosites of cavil—are pleased to call lust!
Extract from : « The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 » by Ambrose Bierce

Doomed beyond doubt—doomed to quick, awful, and certain death was the earless trapper.
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

But we knew it was not that; we knew it was the body of a man dressed in brown buckskin—the body of the earless trapper!
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

This head had no ears; and the earless man had his head out of the carriage window.
Extract from : « The Man With the Black Feather » by Gaston Leroux

We have to go deeper, or our inadequate children's insufficient children will starve amidst harvests of earless futility.
Extract from : « The New Machiavelli » by Herbert George Wells

Antonyms for earless

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