Something that's defective doesn't work quite right, because it's damaged in some way. Your defective car probably won't make it all the way to California from New York.
Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities;
Adjective S.
not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
Adjective S.
markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"
Adjective S.
having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
a.
Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part;
deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral
qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or
account; a defective character; defective rules.
a.
Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or
conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
Defective
Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities;
Usage Examples
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
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