What is another word for defective?

Pronunciation: [dɪfˈɛktɪv] (IPA)

The word "defective" refers to something that is not functioning properly or is flawed in some way. Some synonyms for this word include faulty, flawed, imperfect, damaged, impaired, and substandard. A faulty product is one that has some sort of defect or problem that makes it unusable or unsafe. A flawed idea or plan is one that is not well thought out or is flawed in some way. An imperfect item is one that is not complete or is lacking in some way. Damaged goods are items that have been damaged or ruined in some way and are no longer usable. Impaired functioning refers to a state of being less than fully functional. Substandard work or material is less than the acceptable level of quality.

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Synonyms for Defective:

adj.
• bad
- arrant
- baneful
- black
- bottom out
- cruddy
- detrimental
- displeasing
- godawful
- grody
- ill-suited
- inadequate
- inadvisable
- inferior
- invalid
- irremediable
- not good
- poor
- the pits
- unfavorable
- unpleasant
- unsatisfactory
- vile
- wretched
- most inferior
- poorer
- sad
• blemished
- Hacked
- Nicked
- Scabbed
- Scored
- Scuffed
- abraded
- blemished
- blistered
- blotched
- chipped
- cracked
- damaged
- defaced
- deformed
- discolored
- disfigured
- distorted
- flawed
- flecked
- freckled
- gashed
- impure
- marked
- marred
- notched
- pockmarked
- scarred
- scraped
- scratched
- slit
- specked
- splotched
- spoiled
- spotted
- stained
- tainted
- tarnished
• deficient
- not cut out for
- not make it
- not up to scratch
- outta gas
- unassembled
- rarest
- third string
• disabled
- crippled
• dysfunctional
- malfunctional
- wounded
• erroneous
- Misconceived
- Misconstrued
- all wet
- botched
- fallacious
- false
- illogical
- inaccurate
- incorrect
- miscalculated
- misestimated
- misjudged
- mistaken
- way off
- wrong number
• haywire
- Orderless
- amok
- in a mess
- schizo
- unglued
- Flipped
- out to lunch
- psycho
• imperfect
- bottom of barrel
- bottom-of-barrel
- few bugs
- incomplete
- second-rate
- junker
- two bit
• impure
- dirty
- immoral
- obscene
- slovenly
- sordid
- unclean
• incomplete
- Parter
- half done
- half-done
- under construction
- Unexecuted
• insufficient
- out of
- too little too late
- unample
- unfitted
• jerry-built
- jerry-rigged
• lacking
- Sans
- can't cut it
- coming up short
- deprived of
- not hacking it
- not making it
- cant cut it
- coming short
- more needing
- more without
- most needing
- most without
- sanser
- sansest
• sketchy
- Depthless
- uncritical
• unintellectual
- cretinous
- foolish
- half-wit
- idiotic
- imbecilic
- moronic
- stupid
- unintellectual
- unintelligent
• wrong
- fluffed
- not precise
- off-target
- on the wrong track
- out of line
- sophistical
- ungrounded
- misfigured
• all
- defective
• broken
- dis integrated
- dis membered
- dis-integrated
- dis-membered
- gone pieces
- gone pot
- in need of repair
- in need repair
- in operable
- in shop
- in-operable
- kaput
- mangled
- more burst
- more busted
- more collapsed
- more crumbled
- more crushed
- more demolished
- more disintegrated
- more dismembered
- more fractured
- more fragmented
- more inoperable
- more mangled
- more pulverized
- more rent
- more riven
- more ruptured
- more severed
- more shattered
- more shivered
- more shot
- more shredded
- more slivered
- more split
- more wracked
- most burst
- most busted
- most collapsed
- most crumbled
- most crushed
- most demolished
- most disintegrated
- most dismembered
- most fractured
- most fragmented
- most inoperable
- most mangled
- most pulverized
- most rent
- most riven
- most ruptured
- most severed
- most shattered
- most shivered
- most shot
- most shredded
- most slivered
- most split
- most wracked
- on fritz
- on shelf
- on the shelf
- out commission
- out kilter
- out order
- out whack
• crippled
- de formed
- de-formed
- gimp
- gimper
- gimpest
- haltest
- in capacitated
- in-capacitated
- lamest
- more enfeebled
- more hamstrung
- more hog tied
- more hog-tied
- more hogtied
- more housebound
- more marred
- more sidelined
- most enfeebled
- most hamstrung
- most hog tied
- most hog-tied
- most hogtied
- most housebound
- most marred
- most sidelined
• execrable
- heinous
• faulty
- de based
- de-based
- lemon
- malformed
- more blemished
- more botched
- more imprecise
- more lemon
- more malfunctioning
- more unretentive
- more warped
- most blemished
- most botched
- most imprecise
- most lemon
- most malfunctioning
- most unretentive
- most warped
- un reliable
- un retentive
- un-reliable
- un-retentive
• flimsy
- cutrate
- gossamer
- house cards
- in firmer
- in firmest
- in substantial
- in-firm
- in-firmer
- in-firmest
- in-substantial
- more chiffon
- more cut rate
- more cut-rate
- more cutrate
- more papery
- more rinkydink
- most chiffon
- most cut rate
- most cut-rate
- most cutrate
- most papery
- most rinkydink
- shallow
- shallower
- trans parent
- trans-parent
- un substantial
- un-substantial
• half-witted
- dull witted
- dullwitted
- half witted
- more dull witted
- more dull-witted
- more dullwitted
- most dull witted
- most dull-witted
- most dullwitted
• inaccurate
- counter factual
- counter-factual
- doesnt wash
- in accurate
- in-accurate
- more way off
- more way-off
- more wayoff
- most way off
- most way-off
- most wayoff
- off base
- un faithful
- un-faithful
- way-off
- wayoff
• inoperative
- in operative
- in-operative
- un workable
- un-workable
• laid-up
- laidup
Other synonyms:

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old

Other relevant words:

• broken-down

out of order

• fractured

broken

• inaccurate

corrupt

• ineffectual

inoperative

• Other relevant words (adjective):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

natural

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- Adjective
  faulty.
- Proper noun, singular
  faulty.
- Noun, plural
  faulty.
- Noun, singular or mass
  faulty.
Independent
- Adjective
  abnormal, broken, damaged, defaced, devoid, disabled, distorted, dysfunctional, erratic, erroneous, false, handicapped, impaired, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, inefficient, infirm, insufficient, irregular, misguided, problematic, questionable, rugged, spoilt, substandard, uneven, unsound, vitiated, wrong, Deteriorated, sub-standard.
- Noun, singular or mass
  damage, defect.
Other Related
- Adjective
  deficient, dilapidated, flawed, imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, malfunctioning, mistaken, unsatisfactory, weak.
- Noun, singular or mass
  malfunctioning.

What are the hypernyms for Defective?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
flawed, imperfect, inadequate, substandard, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, untrustworthy.

What are the antonyms for Defective?

adj.
• above suspicion; flawless
- impeccable
• brimming, filled
- full
• broken, not working
- adequate
- ample
- enough
- excellent
- faultless
- flawless
- perfect
- sound
- strong
- sufficient
- unbroken
- well
- working
• complete
- Whole-length
- all embracing
- all inclusive
- all over
- all over but shouting
- all over but the shouting
- all-embracing
- allembracing
- allinclusive
- done with
- dyed in the wool
- entire
- fini
- finished off
- full fledged
- fulldress
- fullfledged
- home free
- hook line and sinker
- hook line sinker
- imperforate
- lock stock and barrel
- lock stock barrel
- more achieved
- more all embracing
- more all-embracing
- more attained
- more complete
- more concluded
- more effected
- more fini
- more imperforate
- more thoroughgoing
- more unbroken
- more uncondensed
- more undiminished
- more undocked
- more unitary
- more unreduced
- more whole hog
- more whole length
- more whole-hog
- more whole-length
- more wholehog
- more wholelength
- most achieved
- most all embracing
- most all-embracing
- most allembracing
- most attained
- most concluded
- most fini
- most imperforate
- most terminated
- most unbroken
- most uncondensed
- most undiminished
- most undocked
- most unitary
- most unreduced
- most whole hog
- most whole length
- most whole-hog
- most whole-length
- most wholehog
- most wholelength
- out and out
- out right
- out righter
- out rightest
- out-right
- out-righter
- out-rightest
- replete
- that's it
- thats it
- the works
- un abbreviated
- un abridged
- un broken
- un condensed
- un conditional
- un cut
- un diminished
- un divided
- un docked
- un expurgated
- un impaired
- un mitigated
- un qualified
- un reduced
- un-abbreviated
- un-abridged
- un-broken
- un-condensed
- un-conditional
- un-cut
- un-diminished
- un-divided
- un-docked
- un-expurgated
- un-impaired
- un-mitigated
- un-qualified
- un-reduced
- uncondensed
- undiminished
- undocked
- unitary
- unreduced
- whole enchilada
- whole length
- whole nine yards
- whole-hog
- wholehog
- wholelength
- workser
- worksest
• favorite, valued
- precious
• flawless
- un blemished
- un damaged
- un marred
- un sullied
- un-damaged
- un-marred
- un-sullied
• full
- chock full
- chockfull
- jammed full
- more crammed
- more glutted
- more gorged
- more jam packed
- more jam-packed
- more plethoric
- more sated
- more satiated
- more stocked
- more suffused
- more surfeited
- more weighted
- most crammed
- most glutted
- most gorged
- most imbued
- most jam packed
- most jam-packed
- most plethoric
- most sated
- most stocked
- most suffused
- most surfeited
- over flowing
- over-flowing
- packed like sardines
- plethoric
- pro fuse
- pro-fuse
- running over
- weighted
• immaculate
- more unexceptionable
- most taintless
- most unexceptionable
- spick and span
- un exceptionable
- un soiled
- un-exceptionable
- un-soiled
• impeccable
- Fleckless
- a okay
- ex act
- ex-act
- in corrupt
- in fallible
- in nocent
- in-corrupt
- in-fallible
- in-nocent
- incorrupt
- more a okay
- more a-okay
- more aokay
- more apple pie
- more apple-pie
- more applepie
- more fleckless
- more incorrupt
- more note perfect
- more note-perfect
- more noteperfect
- most a okay
- most a-okay
- most aokay
- most apple pie
- most apple-pie
- most applepie
- most fleckless
- most incorrupt
- most note perfect
- most note-perfect
- most noteperfect
- note perfect
- note-perfect
- noteperfect
- on target
- un erring
- un flawed
- un impeachable
- un-erring
- un-impeachable
- unerring
• intact
- Unviolated
- in discrete
- in tact
- in-discrete
- in-tact
- indiscrete
- more indiscrete
- more scatheless
- more uninjured
- more unviolated
- most indiscrete
- most scatheless
- most uninjured
- most unviolated
- scatheless
- un defiled
- un harmed
- un hurt
- un injured
- un scathed
- un violated
- un-defiled
- un-harmed
- un-hurt
- un-injured
- un-scathed
- un-violated
- unhurt
- uninjured
• not flawed
- unblemished
• noun
- complete
- functioning
- intact
- undamaged
- unimpaired
- unspoiled
- whole
• precious
- alembicated
- be loved
- be-loved
- high priced
- highpriced
- in estimable
- in valuable
- in-estimable
- in-valuable
- la di da
- more adored
- more alembicated
- more cherished
- more darling
- more idolized
- more overnice
- more overrefined
- more precieux
- more prizable
- more prized
- more recherche
- more treasurable
- more treasured
- most adored
- most alembicated
- most cherished
- most darling
- most idolized
- most overnice
- most overrefined
- most precieux
- most prizable
- most recherche
- most treasurable
- most treasured
- over nice
- over refined
- over-nice
- over-refined
- overnice
- overrefined
- precieux
- re fined
- recherche
- stagier
- stagiest
- stagy
- treasurable
- worth a king's ransom
- worth a kings ransom
- worth eyeteeth
- worth king ransom
- worth king's ransom
- worth kings ransom
- worth one weight gold
- worth one weight in gold
- worth one's weight gold
- worth one's weight in gold
- worth ones weight gold
- worth ones weight in gold
- worth weight gold
- worth weight in gold
• smoothly continuous
- seamless
• sound
- Undecayed
- alive and kicking
- alive kicking
- in pink
- in the pink
- more undecayed
- more well constructed
- more well-constructed
- more wellconstructed
- most undecayed
- most well constructed
- most well-constructed
- right as rain
- un decayed
- un-decayed
- up to snuff
- well constructed
- well-constructed
- wellconstructed
- wrapped tight
• unblemished
- de cent
- de-cent
- more unspotted
- most unspotted
- un spotted
- un stained
- un tarnished
- un-blemished
- un-marked
- un-spotted
- un-stained
- un-tarnished
- unspotted
• untouched
- in different
- in good condition
- in-different
- more unimpressed
- most unimpressed
- out danger
- out of danger
- safe and sound
- safe sound
- un affected
- un concerned
- un impressed
- un stirred
- un touched
- un tried
- un trieder
- un triedest
- un-concerned
- un-moved
- un-stirred
- un-touched
- un-tried
- un-trieder
- un-triedest
- unimpressed
- without scratch
• very clean; unspoiled
- immaculate
• whole; not spoiled
- untouched
Other relevant words:

exact
precise

Usage examples for Defective

Brutal as he had been to her, hopeless as seemed such prospects, Ma-nee thought of the cruel Ik-wa and determined to go to him, with the two defective children of her second husband, beg him to accept them as his own and to take her, as a secondary wife, a servant-a position of humiliation and hard labor.

"My Attainment of the Pole"

Frederick A. Cook

During the fog there had been a curious sense of satisfaction in his heart because he knew that, whatever happened, his defective vision would make no difference.

"Command"

William McFee

Marian, however, insisted on having this defective saddle in spite of the protest of Mrs. Bray, who felt quite guilty whenever they came to any perilous places.

"George Eliot"

Mathilde Blind

Famous quotes with Defective

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Thomas Aquinas
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

P. D. James
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Morley Safer
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Lao Tzu

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