Synonyms for Defect:

• n.

  •Achilles heel (noun)
  • achilles-heel,
  • damaging weaknesses,
  • weak links,
  • chink the armor,
  • heel achilles,
  • chink armor,
  • tender spots.
  •
  • deficit,
  • shortage.
  •
  • seam,
  • twist,
  • gap,
  • sin,
  • vice,
  • weak point,
  • patch,
  • knot,
  • blind spot.
  •
  • excess.
  •
  • beautiful,
  • help,
  • better.
  •
  • rat,
  • trust,
  • renegade,
  • change sides,
  • approach.
  •blemish (noun)
  • abrasion,
  • impurity,
  • stigma,
  • sore,
  • defacement,
  • weal,
  • blotch,
  • disfigurement,
  • lesion,
  • spoilage,
  • discoloration,
  • rift,
  • wart,
  • eyesore,
  • brand.
  •blemish, imperfection (noun)
  • error,
  • irregularity,
  • crack,
  • second,
  • gremlin,
  • rough spot,
  • break,
  • mistake,
  • catch,
  • Marring,
  • birthmark,
  • hole,
  • glitch,
  • injury.
  •blindness (noun)
  • presbyopia.
  •bow out (noun)
  • bow.
  •bug (noun)
  • computer malfunctions,
  • something wrongs.
  •dearth (noun)
  • in-adequacies,
  • exiguousnesses,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-adequacy,
  • rarenesses,
  • sparsities,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • in adequacy,
  • un commonnesses,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • slim picking,
  • in-frequencies,
  • un-commonness,
  • in frequency,
  • in-frequency,
  • un commonness,
  • in frequencies.
  •default (noun)
  • dis regards,
  • over sight,
  • de-fault,
  • overlookings,
  • de fault,
  • over sights,
  • over-sight,
  • over looking,
  • dis-regards,
  • non payments,
  • over-sights,
  • non payment,
  • dis-regard,
  • in sufficiency,
  • non-payments,
  • over-looking,
  • dis regard,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • de-faults,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • de faults,
  • in-sufficiency.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • de merits,
  • de-merits,
  • de-merit,
  • insufficiences,
  • inability hack it,
  • de merit.
  •deformity (noun)
  • misshapenness,
  • unattractiveness,
  • repulsiveness,
  • Misproportion,
  • Malconformation,
  • malformation.
  •difficulty, trouble (noun)
  • disadvantage(s).
  •disability (noun)
  • in competency,
  • in validity,
  • in-experiences,
  • in-capacities,
  • in capacities,
  • in capacity,
  • un-fitness,
  • in-validities,
  • in-validity,
  • in-competency,
  • in validities,
  • dis qualification,
  • dis-qualification,
  • dis qualifications,
  • in competencies,
  • un-fitnesses,
  • in-competencies,
  • in-capacity,
  • un fitnesses,
  • in-experience,
  • in experiences,
  • dis-qualifications,
  • un fitness,
  • in experience.
  •disadvantage(s) (noun)
  • dis advantage,
  • in-utility,
  • in-convenience,
  • in-conveniences,
  • de privations,
  • in utilities,
  • adverse circumstance,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis advantages,
  • dis commodity,
  • fly the ointment,
  • in conveniences,
  • in-utilities,
  • de-privation,
  • dis-commodity,
  • dis-advantage,
  • dis-commodities,
  • blockings,
  • in convenience,
  • fly in ointment,
  • de privation,
  • in utility,
  • fly ointment,
  • dis commodities,
  • de-privations.
  •disease (noun)
  • visitation,
  • endemics,
  • ill health,
  • Sickliness,
  • pathosis,
  • up set,
  • unhealthiness,
  • inflammation,
  • flu.
  •disfigurement (noun)
  • de formations,
  • de-formation,
  • de formation,
  • de-formations.
  •error (noun)
  • fallacy,
  • misconception,
  • oversight,
  • misestimation,
  • gaffe,
  • Misjudgment,
  • blunder,
  • misconstruction,
  • distortion,
  • misprint,
  • aberration,
  • slip,
  • falsehood,
  • miscalculation.
  •failing (noun)
  • failings.
  •fault (noun)
  • loss innocence,
  • mis cues,
  • mis-conducts,
  • mis deed,
  • slip ups,
  • in-discretion,
  • mis-demeanor,
  • mis-cue,
  • mis-cues,
  • mis demeanors,
  • mis cue,
  • answerabilities,
  • in discretion,
  • evil doings,
  • in-discretions,
  • mis-demeanors,
  • mis demeanor,
  • mis deeds,
  • mis-deeds,
  • mis-conduct,
  • mis conducts,
  • in discretions,
  • mis-deed,
  • mis conduct.
  •flaw (noun)
  • catch 22's,
  • catch22,
  • catch-22's,
  • catch22's,
  • catch 22.
  •frailty (noun)
  • daintinesses,
  • suscepts,
  • peccabilities.
  •impediment (noun)
  • re strictions,
  • re-strictions,
  • de lays,
  • de-lays,
  • dead weights,
  • re striction,
  • de lay,
  • retardments,
  • de-lay,
  • re-striction.
  •imperfection (noun)
  • faultiness,
  • incompleteness.
  •inaccuracy (noun)
  • in-correctness,
  • in-exactness,
  • mis calculation,
  • mis-takes,
  • in correctnesses,
  • in-accuracy,
  • mis take,
  • un-reliabilities,
  • mis-calculation,
  • unreliabilities,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • in correctness,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • mis-calculations,
  • in exactnesses,
  • un reliability,
  • in-accuracies,
  • un faithfulness,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • in-correctnesses,
  • inexactnesses,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • mis-take,
  • in accuracy,
  • in exactness,
  • mis calculations,
  • mis takes,
  • in accuracies,
  • un-reliability,
  • un reliabilities.
  •infirmity (noun)
  • de-cays,
  • un-wellnesses,
  • ailings,
  • un-health,
  • un healths,
  • de cay,
  • un wellness,
  • un health,
  • de cays,
  • unhealths,
  • de-cay,
  • un-wellness,
  • diseasednesses,
  • un-healths,
  • unwellnesses,
  • un wellnesses.
  •insubstantiality (noun)
  • in-substantialities,
  • in-substantiality,
  • in substantialities,
  • in substantiality.
  •lack (noun)
  • retrenchment,
  • shrinking,
  • shortness,
  • retrenchments,
  • slightness,
  • exiguity.
  •malformation (noun)
  • mutation,
  • abberation.
  •scantiness (noun)
  • Leannesses,
  • tightnesses.
  •unsoundness (noun)
  • un-soundness,
  • un-soundnesses,
  • un soundness,
  • un soundnesses.
  •want (noun)
  • pauperisms,
  • skimpinesses.

• v.

  •abandon (verb)
  • leave,
  • abandon,
  • vacate,
  • relinquish,
  • quit,
  • desert,
  • surrender,
  • evacuate,
  • forsake,
  • resign,
  • discontinue,
  • abdicate,
  • drop.
  •blemish (verb)
  • discolor,
  • deface,
  • score,
  • notch,
  • gash,
  • scrape,
  • abrade,
  • deform,
  • hurt,
  • dot,
  • blister,
  • chip,
  • nick,
  • pockmark,
  • tarnish,
  • hack,
  • check,
  • disfigure,
  • mark,
  • mar,
  • spoil,
  • spot,
  • freckle,
  • distort,
  • slit,
  • stain,
  • splotch,
  • scratch,
  • scuff,
  • fracture,
  • damage,
  • fleck.
  •break from belief, faith (verb)
  • go over,
  • break faith,
  • depart,
  • turn coat,
  • abscond,
  • fall away from,
  • take a walk,
  • walk out on,
  • pull out,
  • spurn,
  • tergiverse,
  • sell out,
  • lapse,
  • renege,
  • withdraw,
  • go over the fence,
  • go back on,
  • reject,
  • go,
  • run out,
  • back out,
  • schism.
  •leave (verb)
  • walked out,
  • de camp,
  • de-sert,
  • gave slip,
  • heading out,
  • says goodbye,
  • came away,
  • headed out,
  • de-camping,
  • slipt out,
  • removing oneself,
  • walks out,
  • re tires,
  • de-camped,
  • dis appear,
  • goes forth,
  • heads out,
  • with-drew,
  • rode off,
  • took a hike,
  • dis appears,
  • gives the slip,
  • coming away,
  • runs along,
  • sets out,
  • de camped,
  • dis-appearing,
  • giving the slip,
  • removes oneself,
  • re-tire,
  • slips out,
  • takes leave,
  • with draws,
  • dis appearing,
  • rid off,
  • with-drawn,
  • dis-appeared,
  • removed oneself,
  • taking hike,
  • slipped out,
  • went forth,
  • dis appeared,
  • takes a hike,
  • takes hike,
  • ran along,
  • running along,
  • de camps,
  • riding off,
  • took leave,
  • re tiring,
  • de-camps,
  • with drawn,
  • moving out,
  • gave the slip,
  • took hike,
  • with draw,
  • said goodbye,
  • re tire,
  • de camping,
  • gives slip,
  • moves out,
  • with drew,
  • slipping out,
  • with drawing,
  • de sert,
  • dis-appears,
  • take hike,
  • comes away,
  • with-drawing,
  • taking a hike,
  • re tired,
  • de-camp,
  • going forth,
  • re-tiring,
  • giving slip,
  • dis-appear,
  • give slip,
  • rides off,
  • with-draw.
  •relinquish (verb)
  • disown,
  • capitulate,
  • forgo,
  • give up,
  • disclaim,
  • shed,
  • release,
  • waive.
  •renounce (verb)
  • backslide,
  • cross,
  • retract,
  • betray,
  • deny,
  • abnegate,
  • disavow.
  •repudiate (verb)
  • dis missed,
  • dis approve,
  • washed one's hands of,
  • dis-approve,
  • washes one's hands of,
  • re pealed,
  • dis honoring,
  • dis inherit,
  • re fusing,
  • am against,
  • re-verse,
  • washing one hands of,
  • dis honored,
  • flies the face of,
  • wash ones hands of,
  • flying in face of,
  • dis approving,
  • re probate,
  • washes one hands of,
  • dis-missing,
  • flew in face of,
  • dis-honored,
  • re-probate,
  • re fused,
  • dis inherited,
  • wash one hands of,
  • washed ones hands of,
  • dis-inherits,
  • dis acknowledged,
  • de faulting,
  • wert against,
  • dis inherits,
  • re fuse,
  • dis-approves,
  • dis-approved,
  • flew the face of,
  • dis missing,
  • washing one's hands of,
  • washes ones hands of,
  • re-peals,
  • re-probates,
  • dis-honoring,
  • dis approves,
  • re versing,
  • dis-inherited,
  • nixed,
  • dis inheriting,
  • dis-acknowledged,
  • dis acknowledging,
  • flying the face of,
  • wast against,
  • art against,
  • re-pealed,
  • fly face of,
  • re-versed,
  • re probating,
  • re-probated,
  • flying face of,
  • re peal,
  • flying in the face of,
  • re-fused,
  • washing ones hands of,
  • washed one hands of,
  • dis-missed,
  • re-tracts,
  • being against,
  • de-faulting,
  • de faulted,
  • fly the face of,
  • re tract,
  • re fuses,
  • flew in the face of,
  • re verse,
  • re-tract,
  • dis-acknowledge,
  • dis-acknowledging,
  • re pealing,
  • were against,
  • was against,
  • dis approved,
  • dis acknowledges,
  • re-fuse,
  • flies face of,
  • dis-approving,
  • flew face of,
  • dis-inherit,
  • flies in the face of,
  • dis-acknowledges,
  • dis acknowledge,
  • de-faulted,
  • dis-inheriting,
  • re peals,
  • re tracts,
  • are against.
  •revolt (verb)
  • gotten out of line,
  • took up arms,
  • takes up arms,
  • getting out line,
  • gets out line,
  • over throwing,
  • gotten out line,
  • taking up arms,
  • turned against,
  • re volt,
  • took arms,
  • re-volts,
  • over-turn,
  • insurrects,
  • turning against,
  • over-throws,
  • making waves,
  • over throws,
  • over throw,
  • over-throw,
  • insurrecting,
  • over-throwing,
  • taking arms,
  • re-volt,
  • over turning,
  • got out of line,
  • over-turning,
  • rock boat,
  • re volts,
  • getting out of line,
  • turns against,
  • insurrected,
  • get out line,
  • gat out line,
  • over-thrown,
  • over thrown,
  • takes arms,
  • got out line,
  • over turns,
  • gets out of line,
  • gat out of line.
  •social (verb)
  • defect.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • boycott,
  • overthrow,
  • bring down,
  • scarceness,
  • apostatize,
  • destabilize,
  • blacklist,
  • underside,
  • insufficiency,
  • Achilles' Heel,
  • shortfall,
  • agitate,
  • subvert,
  • abnormality,
  • sit in,
  • oust,
  • scantness,
  • foment,
  • Noncompletion,
  • chase,
  • riot.
  •
  • remove,
  • underage,
  • disadvantage,
  • paucity,
  • poverty,
  • rebel,
  • demonstrate,
  • weakness,
  • dislodge,
  • scarcity.
  •
  • limitation,
  • stop.
  •
  • rise.
  •
  • turn.
  •leave
  • run along,
  • set out,
  • walk out,
  • slip out,
  • go away,
  • ride off,
  • Embarking,
  • pushing off,
  • Sallying,
  • saying goodbye,
  • head out,
  • setting out,
  • take leave,
  • exited,
  • going away,
  • goes away,
  • move out,
  • take a hike,
  • moved out,
  • taking leave,
  • vamoose,
  • say goodbye,
  • walking out,
  • emigrate,
  • go forth,
  • went away,
  • Sallied,
  • come away,
  • remove oneself,
  • give the slip.
  •mark
  • stigmata.
  •renounce
  • divorce oneself from,
  • ratting,
  • wash hands of,
  • swearing off,
  • leave flat,
  • Ratted,
  • toss over,
  • abstains from,
  • divorce from,
  • took the pledge,
  • take the pledge,
  • swear off,
  • abstain from.
  •revolt
  • Mutinied,
  • take arms,
  • insurrect,
  • get out of line,
  • take up arms,
  • makes waves,
  • make waves,
  • over turn.
  •Other relevant words:
  • discontinuity,
  • Rockiness,
  • symptoms,
  • endocrine disease,
  • bald,
  • Non-performance,
  • illness,
  • congenital defect,
  • tinge,
  • responsibility,
  • pock,
  • crater,
  • waste,
  • Eduction,
  • idiosyncrasy,
  • poor,
  • freshly,
  • absolutely,
  • difficulty,
  • exactly,
  • lacuna,
  • confound,
  • cloven foot,
  • cicatrix,
  • around,
  • failure,
  • inferiority,
  • plant disease,
  • half blood,
  • disorder,
  • injure,
  • syndrome,
  • dishonour,
  • craze,
  • indisposition,
  • blur,
  • erratum,
  • really,
  • tightly,
  • strawberry mark,
  • vulnerable place,
  • authentically,
  • anachronism,
  • feebleness,
  • escape,
  • smear,
  • privation,
  • hold aloof from,
  • impairment,
  • Wantage,
  • destitution,
  • deficient,
  • malicious,
  • outage,
  • indiscretion,
  • scant,
  • problem,
  • about,
  • dishonor,
  • discredit,
  • blackhead,
  • hereditary disease,
  • wen,
  • Faulting,
  • very,
  • deformed,
  • recently,
  • false,
  • run out on,
  • mole,
  • respiratory disease,
  • disablement,
  • demerit,
  • negligence,
  • endemic,
  • disgrace,
  • debility,
  • correctly,
  • pustule,
  • occupational disease,
  • fail,
  • depraved,
  • newly,
  • accurately,
  • complication,
  • shift,
  • endemic disease,
  • crotchet,
  • vulnerability,
  • symptom,
  • diseased,
  • suggestibility,
  • tincture,
  • deduction,
  • scarcely,
  • bad habit,
  • short,
  • all but,
  • comedo,
  • port-wine mark,
  • preoccupation,
  • obstacle,
  • unsound,
  • bad,
  • hardly,
  • wasting disease,
  • hindrance,
  • nearly,
  • wale,
  • pathology,
  • let down,
  • wicked,
  • flee,
  • affection,
  • evil,
  • blatant,
  • hurdle,
  • Arrearage,
  • sign,
  • confute,
  • degenerate,
  • just about,
  • Urogenital Disease,
  • loss,
  • excrescence,
  • switch,
  • disfiguration,
  • pathological condition,
  • quite,
  • Iatrogenic Disease,
  • spring a leak,
  • harshly,
  • ailment,
  • be ill,
  • verruca,
  • just,
  • defective,
  • deficiency disease,
  • pimple,
  • malaise,
  • quirk,
  • apostacize,
  • birth defect,
  • inadequateness,
  • inaction,
  • impotence,
  • precisely,
  • sick,
  • interval,
  • port-wine stain,
  • brutal,
  • symptomology,
  • fall away,
  • inaccurate,
  • liability,
  • welt,
  • bleb,
  • snag,
  • split,
  • gastrointestinal disease,
  • sebaceous cyst,
  • dereliction,
  • convince,
  • peccadillo,
  • malady,
  • Symptomatology,
  • overt,
  • genetic disease,
  • loophole,
  • susceptibility,
  • renegue,
  • blight,
  • rather,
  • straw hat,
  • bar sinister,
  • turn traitor,
  • pip,
  • discount,
  • intimately,
  • bacterial disease,
  • sit-in,
  • Sickishness,
  • gouge,
  • reproach,
  • Muscular Disease,
  • whitehead,
  • helplessness,
  • unsubstantiality,
  • narrowly,
  • vicious,
  • nude,
  • cardiovascular disease,
  • keloid,
  • Excrescency,
  • stand aloof from,
  • merely,
  • condition,
  • wrong,
  • hiatus,
  • adactylism,
  • amiss,
  • circulatory disease,
  • drop out,
  • signs,
  • almost,
  • practically,
  • degrade,
  • hickey,
  • morbus,
  • switch over,
  • indentation,
  • missing link,
  • dent,
  • warp,
  • hitch,
  • Non-fulfilment,
  • absence,
  • roughly,
  • skip it,
  • strictly,
  • fall ill,
  • weak spot,
  • weak side,
  • Acute Disease,
  • drinking straw,
  • degenerative disease,
  • atrophy,
  • besetting sin,
  • vesicle,
  • Chronic Disease,
  • stumbling block,
  • affliction,
  • soil,
  • handicap,
  • not quite,
  • bolt,
  • pretty near,
  • run away,
  • mess,
  • coarsely,
  • allergic disease,
  • obstruction,
  • pit,
  • slur,
  • allergy,
  • lentigo,
  • Virus Disease,
  • improper,
  • inadequate,
  • short coming,
  • organic disease,
  • sickness,
  • track,
  • fall off,
  • spinelessness,
  • afterglow,
  • sty,
  • march,
  • bulla,
  • ail,
  • scarce,
  • complaint,
  • insufficient,
  • secede,
  • break away,
  • open,
  • desolate,
  • epidemic disease,
  • caret,
  • seediness,
  • lately,
  • closely,
  • decrement,
  • relatively,
  • hemangioma,
  • milium,
  • set back,
  • cut,
  • smirch,
  • ailing,
  • virtually,
  • defection,
  • fallibility,
  • neurological disease,
  • detriment,
  • geological fault,
  • comparatively,
  • naked,
  • morbidity,
  • approximately,
  • infectious disease,
  • cruel,
  • erroneous,
  • turn against,
  • distemper,
  • eccentricity,
  • powerlessness,
  • Impressionability,
  • ullage,
  • undersupply,
  • attainder,
  • peculiarity,
  • functional disease,
  • omission,
  • achilles heel,
  • incorrect,
  • hang-up,
  • malevolent,
  • substantially,
  • daub,
  • deprivation,
  • faute,
  • nevus,
  • need.

Paraphrases for Defect:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    Deficiencies.
  • Noun, plural
    flaws.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deficiency, shortcoming, weakness.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    glitch.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    default.
  • Noun, plural
    defaults.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    anomaly, malfunction, fault, deficit, mistake, disadvantage, defective, disorder, impropriety, impairment, vice, necrosis, shortage, inconsistency, discrepancy, imbalance, inadequacy, handicap, faulty, default, incidence, snag, breakdown, gap, insufficiency, aberration, downside, disability.
  • Interjection
    snakes.
  • Verb, base form
    default.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    irregularity, failure, abnormality, malformation, drawback, failing, error, deformity, shortfall, loophole, omission, lacuna, Lacunae.

Antonyms for Defect:

• n.

  • blemish, imperfection
    boon, sufficiency, strength, strong point, benefit, plenty, abundance, correction, certainty, cleanliness, improvement, perfection, success, blank, enough, closure, correctness, accuracy, line, truth, advantage, right, good, clarity, blessing.
  • Other antonyms:
    decoration, enhancement, embellishment, ornament, adornment.

• v.

  • break from belief, faith
    persevere, stay, approve, come in, continue, join, allow, support, come, remain.

Homophones for Defect:

• deep-seated, depict, diffused, depicted, deposit, deep south, dovecote, divagate, divest, diapsida, deficit, data-based, debased, de facto, deep-chested, deep pocket, diapsid, devastate, dope sheet, dibasic acid, defaced, debauched, dopastat, deep-set.

Hypernym for Defect:

• n.

  • state
    congenital abnormality, congenital defect, congenital anomaly, myelatelia, congenital disorder, birth defect.

• v.

  • social
    rat.

Hyponym for Defect:

• n.

  • state
    imperfection, imperfectness.

• v.

  • social
    flee, take flight, fly.