faulty
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈfɔlti/
:
defectuoso
- Even with a faulty relay, a stuck valve, that system works.
- a faulty product
- a faulty system
- faulty data
Do I really want to start with faulty material?
- Do I really want to start with faulty material?
- And so I think Porsche sitting here thinking, OK, we have this faulty part on this car.
- That means you need two of the faulty genes, one from each parent, to get the symptoms.
- You could have some faulty hard drives that randomly erase various things.
- They are leaking coolant into the tube sleeving due to a faulty seal.
- We get the sense that what caused the decline of liberalism more than anything else was faulty thinking.
- While they're still given in the blood, they bypass the body's healthy cells and latch on to just the faulty ones, preventing them from functioning.
- Anyway, they give me this diesel Vauxhall Venture at the time and it had AI, didn't know it had a faulty fuel gauge.
- And so you're making decisions and you're creating perceptions of this individual in this situation based off a faulty foundation.
- We don't need to use a faulty model and apply it to the very real terrorism problem that we have at home.
- She has a rookie ambassador in her brain and it's faulty.
Examples
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Meanwhile, the owner of the airline thinks he knows what caused it all: faulty thrust reversers.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sometimes, however, if a component is faulty, it could fail under heavy load.
Academic text (2005) -
Do I really want to start with faulty material?
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Every new baby born would be "built" with faulty materials, and the cycle would continue.
Blog text (4) -
Could be a faulty battery.
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We should be getting hazard pay for this sort of faulty equipment.
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Your phone has been reported faulty and needs to be tested by our voice recognition system.
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We checked out the engines that were reported faulty.
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Undaunted, the students vowed to rebuild the rocket, fix the faulty engines, and try again.
Academic text (1995) -
We should be getting hazard pay for this sort of faulty equipment.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not working correctly
∞
1.0
Not working properly or in poor condition
182
3.7
Not perfect because of a mistake or problem
96
6.1
Not working properly or doing its job
71
4.1
Not able to be trusted to work or be right
57
3.9
Having a fault that makes something not work properly
31
1.0
Damaged or not whole and not working
1
3.9
Having many small errors or problems in a program
Not working properly so a machine or system cannot work as it should
Antonyms
How Faulty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Faulty comes from the word fault, which comes from an old French word faute meaning 'error' or 'lack', and the ending -y means 'having' or 'full of'. So faulty means 'having a fault', which is why we call brakes, wires, or parts 'faulty' when they do not work correctly.