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defective
adjective
1 defective
Having a defect:
— I returned the appliance because it was defective.
synonym: faulty.
Roget 53:
incomplete;
imperfect
etc.
651;
unfinished;
uncompleted
etc.
(complete)
etc.
729;
defective,
deficient,
wanting,
lacking,
failing;
in default,
in arrear†;
short of;
hollow,
meager,
lame,
halfand-half,
perfunctory,
sketchy;
crude
etc.
(unprepared)
674.
mutilated,
garbled,
docked,
lopped,
truncated.
in progress,
in hand;
going on,
proceeding.
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Roget 651:
imperfect;
not perfect
etc.
650;
deficient,
defective;
faulty,
unsound,
tainted;
out of order,
out of tune;
cracked,
leaky;
sprung;
warped
etc.
(distort)
243;
lame;
injured
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
peccant
etc.
(bad)
649;
frail
etc.
(weak)
160;
inadequate
etc.
(insufficient)
640;
crude
etc.
(unprepared)
674;
incomplete
etc.
53;
found wanting;
below par;
short-handed;
below its full strength,
under its full strength,
below its full complement.
indifferent,
middling,
ordinary,
mediocre;
average
etc.
29;
so-so;
coucicouci,
milk and water;
tolerable,
fair,
passable;
pretty well,
pretty good;
rather good,
moderately good;
good;
good enough,
well enough,
adequate;
decent;
not bad,
not amiss;
inobjectionable†,
unobjectionable,
admissible,
bearable,
only better than nothing.
secondary,
inferior;
second-rate,
second-best;
one-horse [U.S.].
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Polish: wadliwy
2 defective
Markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior.
3 defective
Not working properly:
— A defective appliance.
synonym: bad.
Moby thesaurus: aberrant, abroad, adrift, adulterated, all abroad, all off, all wrong, ament, amiss, amputee, arrested, askew, astray, at fault, awry, backward, beside the mark, blemished, born fool, broken, callow, checked, cicatrized, clot, congenital idiot, corrupt, corrupted, cracked, crazed, cretin, cripple, damaged, debased, deceptive, defaced, deficient, deformed, deformity, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disfigured, disordered, distorted, disturbed, embryonic, errant, erring, erroneous, exceptional, failing, fallacious, fallible, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, found wanting, golem, half-assed, half-wit, handicapped person, heretical, heterodox, hypoplastic, idiot, illogical, illusory, imbecile, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inadequate, incapable, incompetent, incomplete, inexact, infant, injured, insufficient, juggins, keloidal, kinked, lacking, makeshift, marred, mediocre, mentally deficient, missing, mixed, mongoloid idiot, moron, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, needing, not enough, not perfect, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the blink, on the fritz, out, out of order, paralytic, paraplegic, part, partial, patchy, peccant, perverse, perverted, pimpled, pimply, quadriplegic, retarded, scabbed, scabby, scant, scanty, scarified, scarred, scrappy, self-contradictory, short, shy, sick, simp, simple, simpleton, sketchy, split, straying, subnormal, the crippled, the handicapped, too little, twisted, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal to, uneven, unfactual, unfinished, unhealthy, unorthodox, unperfected, unproved, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsettled, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, untrue, vitiated, wanting, warped, wide, wrong ... show more.
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