Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of defects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Full of defects; imperfect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Full of
defects ;imperfect .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word defectuous.
Examples
-
What I am trying to say that low IQ is not an isolated parameter but one aspect of o defectuous person.
-
Amongst the infirmities therefore of a Commonwealth, I will reckon in the first place those that arise from an imperfect institution, and resemble the diseases of a natural body, which proceed from a defectuous procreation.
Leviathan 2007
-
Diogenes, that this sort of animals are partakers of intelligence and air, but by reason of the density in some parts of them, and by the superfluity of moisture in others, they neither enjoy understanding nor sense; but they are affected as madmen are, the commanding rational part being defectuous and injured.
-
Amongst the infirmities therefore of a Commonwealth, I will reckon in the first place those that arise from an imperfect institution, and resemble the diseases of a natural body, which proceed from a defectuous procreation.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.