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faulty

adjective

1 a faulty electric blanket:

malfunctioning, broken, damaged, defective, not working, not functioning, in disrepair, out of order, out of commission, inoperative, unsound, unusable, useless;

informal on the blink, on its last legs, kaput, bust, busted, conked out, acting/playing up, gone haywire, gone phut, done for, wonky, dud;

British, informal knackered, duff;

informal on the fritz.

▷antonyms working, functioning.

2 her logic is faulty:

defective, flawed, unsound, distorted, inaccurate, incorrect, erroneous, imprecise, fallacious, wrong;

impaired, weak, invalid.

▷antonyms sound.

word links	faulty
dys- related prefix, as in dysfunction, dysphasia