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defective
adjective
1 a defective seat belt:
faulty, flawed, imperfect, shoddy, inoperative, not working, not functioning, non-functioning, malfunctioning, out of order, unsound;
weak, deficient, incomplete;
in disrepair, broken, cracked, torn, scratched, deformed, warped, buckled;
informal gone wrong, on the blink;
British, informal knackered, duff.
antonyms working, perfect.
2 these methods are defective in strength and durability:
lacking, wanting, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, short, low, scant.
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