defective

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Having one or more defects.
2. Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
3. (Arabic) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
4. Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
5. 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.

Adv

Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.

Noun

1. A person or thing considered to be defective.
2. A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

Teenoorgestelde van

complete, perfect, undefective, plene

Sinonieme

faulty

imperfect

deficient

bad

👎

broken

flawed

inferior

incomplete

inadequate

wanting

mistaken

out of order

poor

damaged

corrupt

seem

be like

elliptical

rotten

invalid

lacking

fallacious

unsound

false

incorrect

scanty

erroneous

deformed

inaccurate

misguided

handicapped

old

🧓

wrong

halting

gap

corrupted

few

🤏

be named

feeble-minded

concurrently

irrational

chipped

at fault

insupportable

insufficient

in short supply

injured

bungling

in half

elliptic

Vertalings

défectueux

défectif

difettoso

fehlerhaft

defeituoso

defectuoso

defectuós

kusurlu

defekt

guasto

mangelhaft

defectivo

defectiu

avarìa

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɪˈfɛktɪv/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: defectif

In summary

From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectīvus.