Faulty

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Faulty \Fault"y\, a.
     1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not
        fit for the use intended.
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              So goodly and erect, though faulty since. --Milton.
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     2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy
        of censure. --Shak.
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              The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty.
                                                    --2 Sam. xiv.
                                                    13.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  faulty
       adj 1: characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"
       2: having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was
          defective" [syn: {defective}]
       [also: {faultiest}, {faultier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "faulty":
     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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  faulty adj. Non-functional; buggy. Same denotation as {bletcherous},
     {losing}, q.v., but the connotation is much milder.