Hearing-impaired

Full definition of hearing-impaired

Adjective

1. Having some degree of deafness; Hard of hearing.As a result of a childhood accident, my sister was hearing-impaired and had to wear a hearing aid.

Usage notes

This is frequently perceived to be a politically correct term. Within the deaf community, the terms Deaf and hard-of-hearing are sometimes preferred as they do not explicitly refer to the condition as an impairment.