[syn: faulty, incorrect, wrong]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Faulty \Fault"y\, a.
1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not
fit for the use intended.
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Created once
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
faulty
adj 1: having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was
defective" [syn: defective, faulty]
2: characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not
following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report";
"an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
[syn: faulty, incorrect, wrong]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
faulty
adj.
Non-functional; buggy. Same denotation as bletcherous, losing, q.v.,
but the connotation is much milder.