Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a person who, owing to the loss of the sense of hearing, has lost also to a great extent the faculty of speech, or who, owing to congenital deafness, has never perfectly acquired that faculty.
- noun A person thus affected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.
- noun A semimute person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
faculty ofspeech eitherimperfectly developed or partially lost. - noun One who has the
faculty ofspeech eitherimperfectly developed or partially lost.
Etymologies
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semi- + mute
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