adjective
fault′i·er, fault′i·est having a fault or faults; defective, blemished, imperfect, or erroneous
Origin of faulty
Middle English fauti
adjective
- A toaster that doesn't toast bread is an example of a faulty toaster.
- When you add 2+2 and get 5, this is an example of faulty reasoning.
- When someone is a weak and not very nice person, this is an example of faulty character.
The definition of faulty is something unreliable or that doesn't work, or an incorrect thought pattern.
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faulty
adjective
fault·i·er, fault·i·est- Containing a fault or defect; imperfect or defective.
- Obsolete Deserving of blame; guilty.
Related Forms:
- fault′i·ly
adverb
- fault′i·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)
- Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "faulty" is often applied: goods, equipment, product, wiring, construction, memory, thinking, design, hardware, software, unit, part, component, assumption, reasoning, premise, gene, operation, technique, merchandise, circuit, code, analysis, posture, machine, method, habit, process, communication.
Origin
fault + -y
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Sentence Examples
- With this we may class faulty division of sentences.
- The work of this age can always be detected by the faulty jointing (Plate IV.
- Thus faulty proof rather than faulty inference is illustrated when the word " in-number " (Ex.
- He and the craftsmen of the school he established completely refute the theory that the anatomical solecisms commonly seen in the works of Japanese sculptors are due to faulty observation.
- A rigorous demonstration was wanting for many years, Leonhard Euler's proof for negative and fractional values being faulty, and was finally given by Niels Heinrik Abel.
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