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-impaired

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Definitions of -impaired word

  • combining form -impaired You use -impaired in adjectives where you are describing someone with a particular disability. For example, someone who is hearing-impaired has a disability affecting their hearing, and someone who is visually-impaired has a disability affecting their sight. 0
  • combining form -impaired The hearing-impaired or the visually-impaired are people with disabilities affecting their hearing or sight. This use could cause offence. 0

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Parts of speech for -impaired

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

-impaired popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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