What is another word for defective?
Synonyms for defective
dɪˈfɛk tɪvde·fec·tive
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
defective
Synonyms:
bad, blemished, corrupt, corrupted, defaced, deficient, deformed, fallible, faulty, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, insufficient, marred, meager, perverted, poor, ruined, scant, short, spoiled, worthlessAntonyms:
absolute, accurate, blameless, complete, completed, consummate, correct, entire, faultless, finished, holy, ideal, immaculate, perfect, sinless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
defective
Synonyms:
faulty, imperfect, insufficient, deficient, wanting, shortAntonyms:
correct, complete, sufficient, full, ample, abundant, satisfactory
Princeton's WordNet
defective, faultyadjective
having a defect
"I returned the appliance because it was defective"
Synonyms:
incorrect, faulty, wrong, badAntonyms:
normal, functioning, perfectdefectiveadjective
markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior
"defective speech"
Antonyms:
functioning, normal, perfectbad, defectiveadjective
not working properly
"a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
Synonyms:
spoilt, tough, speculative, unsound, sorry, uncollectible, regretful, bad, forged, unfit, risky, high-risk, faulty, spoiled, bigAntonyms:
perfect, functioning, normal
Dictionary of English Synonymes
defectiveadjective
Synonyms:
deficient, insufficient, inadequate, not full, incompletedefectiveadjective
Synonyms:
imperfect, faulty, not perfect
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "defective":
faulty, flawed, deficient, poor, malfunctioning, inoperative, bad
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#330 | big | |
#746 | short | |
#841 | bad | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#1711 | poor | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#4924 | tough | |
#7081 | incorrect | |
#7663 | wanting | |
#8060 | incomplete | |
#10242 | insufficient | |
#11273 | defective | |
#11969 | corrupt | |
#15200 | inferior | |
#15510 | forged | |
#15665 | risky | |
#16930 | faulty | |
#17142 | deficient | |
#17335 | flawed | |
#17868 | corrupted | |
#18218 | ruined | |
#20140 | speculative | |
#20769 | worthless | |
#21090 | imperfect | |
#21584 | spoiled | |
#28175 | perverted | |
#29642 | unfit | |
#30944 | deformed | |
#37666 | scant | |
#42006 | marred | |
#42060 | meager | |
#50756 | spoilt | |
#53689 | defaced | |
#53805 | unsound | |
#54372 | malfunctioning | |
#57032 | inoperative | |
#80235 | fallible | |
#93066 | uncollectible | |
#111694 | blemished | |
#134051 | regretful |
How to use defective in a sentence?
If the officials are corrupt, if the laws are defective, if the penalties are unjust, than you have a unjust government.
We're going to show that Tote knew the El Faro was a defective ship that they knowingly sent into the path of a hurricane. We'll be fighting to expose the Limited Liability act of 1851 as the backward and arcane law that it is.
It is clear to me that we can not prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement, the Iran deal is defective at The Iran deal core. If we do nothing we know exactly what will happen.
If you know the gene and the function of the gene, then you know which biological mechanism is defective.
A Belgian motorist was complaining that his turn signal had been defective and was going :"once it worked!, once it didn't work!, once it worked!, once it didn't work!, once it...."
Translations for defective
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- неизправен, повреденBulgarian
- diglokBreton
- defectiu, defectuósCatalan, Valencian
- vadnýCzech
- fehlerhaft, defektGerman
- defectivo, defectuosoSpanish
- vajaa, viallinen, vajavainen, puutteellinenFinnish
- défectueux, défectifFrench
- easpach, uireasachIrish
- uireasbhachScottish Gaelic
- פגוםHebrew
- hibásHungarian
- cacatIndonesian
- difettosoItalian
- عهیبدارKurdish
- defectDutch
- ułomnyPolish
- defectivo, defeituosoPortuguese
- defectuos, defectiv, defectRomanian
- дефекти́вный, неиспра́вный, повреждённый, дефе́ктныйRussian
- defektiv, defektSwedish
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