Usually means: Extremely loud, damaging to hearing.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word deafening:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. deafening: Merriam-Webster
  2. deafening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deafening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deafening: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deafening: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deafening, deafening: Wordnik
  7. deafening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deafening: Wiktionary
  9. deafening: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Deafening, deafening: Dictionary.com
  11. deafening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Deafening (novel), Deafening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Deafening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. deafening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. deafening: Rhymezone
  16. deafening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. deafening: FreeDictionary.org
  18. deafening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. deafening: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. deafening: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deafening: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deafening: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. deafening: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
▸ adjective:  (hyperbolic) Very loud.
▸ noun:  (architecture) pugging
▸ noun:  The process by which something is deafened.

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roaring, thundery, loud, thunderous, earsplitting, ear-shattering, screaming, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, hugeous, more...

Opposite:
quiet, silent, mute

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sound, noise, silence, more...

Phrases:
deafening silence, opposite of deafening, more...

Adjectives:
nigh, more, unilateral, neonatal, first, early, little, partial, sound, temporary

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Similar:
roaring, thundery, loud, thunderous, earsplitting, ear-shattering, screaming, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, hugeous, more...

Opposite:
quiet, silent, mute

Types:
sound, noise, silence, more...

Phrases:
deafening silence, opposite of deafening, more...

Adjectives:
nigh, more, unilateral, neonatal, first, early, little, partial, sound, temporary

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     firebrick, more...



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