'Faulty' definitions:
Definition of 'faulty'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective" [syn: defective, faulty]
adjective
Definition of 'Faulty'
From: GCIDE
- Faulty \Fault"y\, a.
- 1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. [1913 Webster]
- Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty. --2 Sam. xiv. 13. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'faulty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- absonant,
- adrift,
- adulterated,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- arraignable,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bad,
- barbarous,
- beside the mark,
- blemished,
- broken,
- careless,
- censurable,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- contradictory,
- contrary to reason,
- corrupt,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- criminal,
- culpable,
- damaged,
- deceptive,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deficient,
- deformed,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disfigured,
- distorted,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- fallible,
- false,
- faultful,
- flawed,
- found wanting,
- guilty,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- immature,
- impaired,
- impeachable,
- imperfect,
- implicated,
- imprecise,
- improper,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- inauthentic,
- incomplete,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsistent,
- incorrect,
- inculpated,
- indictable,
- inexact,
- infelicitous,
- invalid,
- involved,
- irrational,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- lacking,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- malfunctioning,
- marred,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- nonscientific,
- not following,
- not perfect,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the blink,
- on the fritz,
- out,
- out of order,
- paralogical,
- partial,
- patchy,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- reasonless,
- reprehensible,
- reproachable,
- reprovable,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-refuting,
- senseless,
- short,
- sick,
- sketchy,
- slipshod,
- slovenly,
- solecistic,
- specious,
- split,
- straying,
- to blame,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unconnected,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfactual,
- unfinished,
- ungrammatic,
- unorthodox,
- unperfected,
- unphilosophical,
- unproved,
- unreasonable,
- unscientific,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- untrue,
- wanting,
- warped,
- wide,
- without reason,
- wrong