Meaning of FAULTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'foltee
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- [adj] characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"
- [adj] having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
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| | Synonyms: | | defective, imperfect, inaccurate |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fault"y\, a.
1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not
fit for the use intended.
Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty
since. --Milton.
2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy
of censure. --Shak.
The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty.
--2 Sam. xiv.
13.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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