semimute

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.

A person thus affected.

A semimute person.

Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.

Having the faculty of speech either imperfectly developed or partially lost.

One who has the faculty of speech either imperfectly developed or partially lost.