 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Faulty \Fault"y\, adjective
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
faulty
adjective
1: characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"
2: having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective" [syn: {defective}] [also: {faultiest}, {faultier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "faulty": 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
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
faulty adjective Non-functional; buggy. Same denotation as {bletcherous}, {losing}, q.v., but the connotation is much milder.
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |