Meaning

5 senses
  1. Having one or more defects.

    If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.

    Artillery officers sometimes have defective hearing.

    fehlerhaft, defekt

    дефе́ктныйdeféktnyj, повреждённыйpovreždjónnyj, неиспра́вныйneisprávnyj

    having a defect

  2. Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.

    mangelhaft, unvollständig

    дефекти́вныйdefektívnyj

  3. (Arabic)Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).

  4. Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.

  5. Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.

Examples

29 sentences
  1. I think this may be defective.

  2. They replaced the defective TV with a new one.

    ruОни заменили дефектный телевизор новым. — sharptoothed

    deSie ersetzten den defekten Fernseher durch einen neuen. — xtofu80

  3. This radar is defective.

  4. This seems to be defective.

  5. This is a defective product.

    ruЭто бракованное изделие. — Wezel

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
having one or more defects:
having only some forms:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
having one or more defects:
having only some forms:

Origin

From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectī

From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectīvus.

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Forms

more defective, most defective
Comparativemore defective Lesson
Superlativemost defective Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • having a defect:faulty
  • not working properly:bad

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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