EGAVE

defective

About 6.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having one or more defects.
    If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.
  2. adjective Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
  3. adjective Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
  4. adjective Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
  5. adjective 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.
  6. adverb Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
  7. noun A person or thing considered to be defective.
  8. noun A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

Similar words

faulty malfunctioning bad nonfunctional imperfect abnormal defect fault flawed dysfunctional

Often followed by

in and or children products product condition as vision

Word family

defectively defectiveness defectivenesses defectives

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