Word Meanings - DEFECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied

Additional info about word: DEFECTIVE

Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFECTIVE)

• Amiss
• Wrong
• untrue
• wide
• bad
• false
• defective
• short
• inappropriate
• inopportune
• injudicious
• untimely
• abortive
• Lame
• Weak
• faltering
• hobbling
• hesitating
• ineffective
• impotent
• crippled
• halt
• imperfect
• Vicious
• Corrupt
• faulty
• morbid
• peccant
• debased
• profligate
• unruly
• impure
• depraved

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEFECTIVE)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to DEFECTIVE)

• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• HOBBLER
  One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. Hallam. Sir J. Davies.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• INOPPORTUNELY
  Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.
• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• IMPOTENT
  One who is imoitent. Shak.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• DEBASED
  Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• ABORTIVE
  Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. Parr. Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever. (more info) 1. Produced by abortion; born
• CONVICIOUS
  Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .