"faulty" meaning in English

See faulty in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɔːlti/ [UK], /ˈfɔlti/ [US], /ˈfɑlti/ [cot-caught-merger], [ˈfɒːlti] [Canada] Audio: en-us-faulty.ogg [US] Forms: faultier [comparative], faultiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔːlti Etymology: fault + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fault|y}} fault + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} faulty (comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)
  1. Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable. Translations (having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable): погрешен (pogrešen) (Bulgarian), неправилен (nepravilen) (Bulgarian), vadný (Czech), kapot (Dutch), gebrekkig (Dutch), viallinen (Finnish), rikkinäinen (Finnish), défectueux (French), fehlerhaft (German), hibás (Hungarian), fabhtach (Irish), difettoso (Italian), imperfetto (Italian), scorretto (Italian), mendōsus (Latin), vitīosus (Latin), muhu (Maori), چوروك (çürük) (Ottoman Turkish), неиспра́вный (neisprávnyj) [defective] (Russian), ло́жный (lóžnyj) (english: false) (Russian), defectuoso (Spanish), imperfecto (Spanish), defekt [defective] (Swedish), felaktig (english: false) (Swedish), несправний (nespravnyj) (Ukrainian), помилковий (pomylkovyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-faulty-en-adj-02OPtGVp Disambiguation of 'having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable': 96 4
  2. (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-faulty-en-adj-zCg~ZF~h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: faultily, faultiness, 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

Inflected forms

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      "word": "fehlerhaft"
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "fabhtach"
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "difettoso"
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "imperfetto"
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "scorretto"
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "mendōsus"
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      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "vitīosus"
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
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      "roman": "neisprávnyj",
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      "word": "defectuoso"
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      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
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      "english": "false",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "felaktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nespravnyj",
      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "несправний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pomylkovyj",
      "sense": "having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable",
      "word": "помилковий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "faulty"
}

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