FromMiddle Englishdefectif,defective, fromOld Frenchdefectif, fromLate Latindēfectīvus.[1]
defective (comparativemoredefective,superlativemostdefective)
- Having one or moredefects.
- Synonym:faulty
- Antonyms:complete,perfect,undefective
2013 March,Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume101, number 2, United States:Sigma Xi,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on4 January 2017, page83:It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory ofMycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
- (grammar, of alexeme, especially averb) Lacking someforms; e.g., having only onetense or being usable only in thethird person.
- (Arabic grammar, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي,و, orء).
- (orthography, of a script) Not capable of representing all thephonemic distinctions of alanguage it is used towrite.
- (chiefly ofabjad script) Spelled withoutmatres lectionis, for exampleאמץ(ómets,“courage”) as opposed to theplene spellingאומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowelo.
- Antonym:plene
with nouns
- defective merchanise
- defective goods
- defective part
- defective component
- defective product
- defective equipment
- defective gene
- defective unit
- defective construction
- defective design
- defective drug
- defective memory
- defective wiring
- defective machine
- defective device
- defective instrument
- defective hardware
- defective software
- defective vehicle
having one or more defects
- Arabic:معيب(maʕīb)
- Bulgarian:повреден (bg)(povreden),неизправен (bg)(neizpraven)
- Catalan:defectiu (ca),defectuós (ca)
- Czech:vadný (cs)
- Danish:fejlbehæftet,defekt (da)
- Dutch:gebrekkig (nl),onvolkomen (nl),onvolmaakt (nl),defectief (nl)
- Finnish:puutteellinen (fi),vajaa (fi),vajavainen (fi),viallinen (fi),rikkinäinen (fi)
- French:défectueux (fr)
- Galician:defectuoso (gl)
- German:fehlerhaft (de),defekt (de)
- Greek:ελαττωματικός (el)(elattomatikós)
- Hebrew:פגום (he)(pagum)
- Hungarian:hibás (hu),hiányos (hu)
- Irish:easpach
- Italian:difettoso (it)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:عەیبدار('eybdar)
- Latin:vitiōsus,mendōsus
- Ottoman Turkish:چوروك(çürük)
- Polish:wadliwy (pl),felerny (pl)
- Portuguese:defeituoso (pt)
- Romanian:defect (ro),defectuos (ro)
- Russian:дефе́ктный (ru)(deféktnyj),повреждённый (ru)(povreždjónnyj),неиспра́вный (ru)(neisprávnyj)
- Sikkimese:སྐྱོན་ཅན(skyon can)
- Spanish:defectuoso (es)
- Swedish:defekt (sv)
- Tagalog:depektibo,depektuwoso
- Turkish:hatalı (tr),kusurlu (tr),çürük (tr),eksik (tr)
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having a weak final consonant
spelled without matres lectionis
defective (notcomparable)
- (chiefly ofabjad script) Withoutmatres lectionis (letters indicatingvowels) written out.
- Antonym:plene
2013, Gregor Geiger,Plene Writing of the Qōṭēl Pattern in the Dead Sea Scrolls:For the sake of comparison, note the distribution of these spellings in some other Hebrew sources: in the MT the vowelo after the first consonant of the root is writtendefective in approximately 3,600 cases as against 850 cases ofplene spelling.
defective (pluraldefectives)
- A person or thing considered to be defective.
1956, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 9(1)”, inSexual Offences Act 1956[2], page 3:It is an offence, subject to the exception mentioned in this section, for a person to procure a woman who is adefective to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world.
2007 January 15, Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars”, inNew York Times[3]:There were many more kinds of mental institutions at mid-century, ones for "mentaldefectives and epileptics" and the mentally retarded, psychiatric wards in veterans hospitals, as well as "psychopathic" and private mental hospitals.
- (chiefly ofabjad script) A word written withoutmatres lectionis (letters indicatingvowels).
- Antonym:plene
2011, Christian D. Ginsburg,Jacob Ben Chajim Ibn Adonijah's Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible: Hebrew and English with Explanatory Notes:Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets thedefectives are enumerated.
defective (comparativeplus defective,superlativeleplus defective)
- defective(having defects)
dēfective
- vocativemasculinesingular ofdēfectivus
