faulty as an adjective: - 1
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faulty
adjective
1 faulty
Having a defect.
synonym: defective.
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 faulty
Moby thesaurus: aberrant, abroad, absonant, adrift, adulterated, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, arraignable, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, barbarous, beside the mark, blemished, broken, careless, censurable, checked, cicatrized, contradictory, contrary to reason, corrupt, cracked, crazed, criminal, culpable, damaged, deceptive, defaced, defective, deficient, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, disfigured, distorted, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, faultful, flawed, found wanting, guilty, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, immature, impaired, impeachable, imperfect, implicated, imprecise, improper, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, inauthentic, incomplete, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, incorrect, inculpated, indictable, inexact, infelicitous, invalid, involved, irrational, keloidal, kinked, lacking, loose, makeshift, malfunctioning, marred, mediocre, mixed, nonscientific, not following, not perfect, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the blink, on the fritz, out, out of order, paralogical, partial, patchy, peccant, perverse, perverted, pimpled, pimply, reasonless, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, short, sick, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, specious, split, straying, to blame, twisted, unauthentic, unconnected, undeveloped, uneven, unfactual, unfinished, ungrammatic, unorthodox, unperfected, unphilosophical, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unthorough, untrue, wanting, warped, wide, without reason, wrong ... show more.
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