FAULTY (faultier, faultiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: faultier    , faultiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does faulty mean? 

• FAULTY (adjective)
  The adjective FAULTY has 2 senses:

1. having a defect

2. characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules

  Familiarity information: FAULTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAULTY (adjective)

Comparative: faultier   
Superlative: faultiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a defect

Synonyms:

defective; faulty

Context example:

I returned the appliance because it was defective

Similar:

imperfect (not perfect; defective or inadequate)

Derivation:

fault (an imperfection in an object or machine)

faultiness (the state of being defective)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules

Synonyms:

faulty; incorrect; wrong

Context example:

the wrong side of the road

Similar:

inaccurate (not accurate)

Derivation:

fault (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

faultiness (the state of being defective)

 Context examples 

A bone marrow transplant is a procedure that replaces a person's faulty bone marrow stem cells.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Studying how the human spleen filters faulty red blood cells has been challenging.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

Next, the researchers asked how glutamate could be managed in the brain and whether that management is faulty in people schizophrenia.

(Key to Treating Schizophrenia May Be Found in Broccoli, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But because the 14 had faulty rods and cones—the main light-detecting and image-producing cells in the eye—the scientists suspected that some other type of light-detecting cell must contribute to light-sensitive pain.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

The device or component had faulty (incomplete or incorrect) software design.

(Device Design Error Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Once incorporated into DNA it creates a faulty template and disrupts viral replication.

(Idoxuridine, NCI Thesaurus)

Gene therapy techniques attempt to replace a faulty/missing gene associated with a particular disease, mediate localized delivery of a protein producing specified therapeutic effects, or introduce new cellular functions.

(Gene therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Oral and silent reading difficulties can include faulty and slow comprehension.

(Dyslexia, NCI Thesaurus)

Hundreds of genes have been found that increase the chance of a person being overweight and in some people faulty genes can cause severe obesity from a young age.

(Slim people have a genetic advantage when it comes to maintaining their weight, University of Cambridge)

Samoan vaccination rates dropped in 2018 after two small children died from a faulty vaccine.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)