faulty
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːlti/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɔlti/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈfɑlti/
Audio (US) (file) - (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈfɒːlti]
- Rhymes: -ɔːlti
Adjective
faulty (comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)
- Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
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with nouns
- faulty goods
- faulty equipment
- faulty product
- faulty wiring
- faulty construction
- faulty memory
- faulty thinking
- faulty design
- faulty hardware
- faulty software
- faulty unit
- faulty part
- faulty component
- faulty assumption
- faulty reasoning
- faulty premise
- faulty gene
- faulty operation
- faulty technique
- faulty merchandise
- faulty circuit
- faulty code
- faulty analysis
- faulty posture
- faulty machine
- faulty method
- faulty habit
- faulty process
- faulty communication
Translations
having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable
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