deaf-mute
- n a deaf person who is unable to speak
- s lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak
- Lang was a deaf-mute who communicated solely by gestures and rough drawings.
- Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett .
- Such small, unredressed tragedies as these are at the silent, solitary heart of McCullers' first novel, which centers on a deaf-mute and a teenage tomboy living in a small Georgia .