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defective en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈfɛktɪv/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. Having one or more defects.
    • If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.
    • It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma 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. 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
    • Artillery officers sometimes have defective hearing.
  2. (of a lexeme, qualifier:especially a verb) Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
  3. (Arabic, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
  4. (of a script) Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
  5. (of abjad script) 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.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most defective Degree=Sup lexicographic
more defective Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

complete · undefective · perfect · plene

Deriveds

defectiveness · defectively · defective number · immunodefective · defective on arrival · nondefective · defectivity · indefective · phosphodefective · defective verb · defective matrix

Relateds

deficiency · deficient · defector · defection · deficit · defect

Synonyms

faulty

Translations (76)

cs vadný (having one or more defects) · it difettivo (having only some forms) · hu hiányos ragozású (having only some forms) · bg повреден (having one or more defects) · ota اكسیك (having one or more defects) · tr eksik (having one or more defects) · br diglok (having only some forms) · nl gebrekkig (having one or more defects) · bg неизправен (having one or more defects) · pl ułomny (having only some forms) · pt defectivo (having only some forms) · he חָסֵר (having only some forms) · pt defeituoso (having one or more defects) · tl depektibo (having one or more defects) · gl defectivo (having only some forms) · cy ddiffygiol (having only some forms) · gl defectuoso (having one or more defects) · ar معيب (having one or more defects) · nl onvolkomen (having one or more defects) · ro defect (having one or more defects) · ota چوروك (having one or more defects) · fr défectif (having only some forms) · sv ofullständig (having only some forms) · ru повреждённый (having one or more defects) · hu hibás (having one or more defects) · he פגום (having one or more defects) · fi puutteellinen (having one or more defects) · fi rikkinäinen (having one or more defects) · nl defectief (having only some forms) · ga uireasach (having only some forms) · ru дефе́ктный (having one or more defects) · ca defectiu (having only some forms) · fi viallinen (having one or more defects) · da fejlbehæftet (having one or more defects) · tr hatalı (having one or more defects) · de mangelhaft (having only some forms) · fi vaillinainen (having only some forms) · es defectuoso (having one or more defects) · ar نَاقِص (having a weak final consonant) · sv defektiv (having only some forms) · ca defectiu (having one or more defects) · tr çürük (having one or more defects) · ro defectuos (having one or more defects) · it difettoso (having one or more defects) · he חָסֵר (spelled without matres lectionis) · tr kusurlu (having one or more defects) · de defekt (having one or more defects) · ga easpach (having one or more defects) · pl felerny (having one or more defects) · nl defectief (having one or more defects) · ro defectiv (having only some forms) · es defectivo (having only some forms) · sv defekt (having one or more defects) · el ελαττωματικός (having one or more defects) · fi vajavainen (having one or more defects) · gd uireasbhach (having only some forms) · la dēfectīvus (having one or more defects) · sip སྐྱོན་ཅན (having one or more defects) · de fehlerhaft (having one or more defects) · fi vajaa (having one or more defects) · la vitiōsus (having one or more defects) · fr défectueux (having one or more defects) · ru дефекти́вный (having only some forms) · hu hiányos (having one or more defects) · ru неиспра́вный (having one or more defects) · ca defectuós (having one or more defects) · da ufuldstændig (having only some forms) · tl depektuwoso (having one or more defects) · pl wadliwy (having one or more defects) · nl onvolmaakt (having one or more defects) · el ελλειπτικός (having only some forms) · ckb عەیبدار (having one or more defects) · da defekt (having one or more defects) · hu hiányos (having only some forms) · de unvollständig (having only some forms) · la mendōsus (having one or more defects)

defective en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈfɛktɪv/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of abjad script) Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
    • For the sake of comparison, note the distribution of these spellings in some other Hebrew sources: in the MT the vowel o after the first consonant of the root is written defective in approximately 3,600 cases as against 850 cases of plene spelling. 2013, Gregor Geiger, Plene Writing of the Qōṭēl Pattern in the Dead Sea Scrolls:

Antonyms

plene

defective en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈfɛktɪv/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. A person or thing considered to be defective.
    • It is an offence, subject to the exception mentioned in this section, for a person to procure a woman who is a defective to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world. 1956, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 9(1)”, in Sexual Offences Act 1956, page 3:
    • There were many more kinds of mental institutions at mid-century, ones for "mental defectives and epileptics" and the mentally retarded, psychiatric wards in veterans hospitals, as well as "psychopathic" and private mental hospitals. 2007 January 15, Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars”, in New York Times:
  2. (of abjad script) A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
    • Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated. 2011, Christian D. Ginsburg, Jacob Ben Chajim Ibn Adonijah's Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible: Hebrew and English with Explanatory Notes:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
defectives Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

plene