Synonyms for Defective:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • defective.
  •bad (adjective)
  • inferior,
  • invalid,
  • black,
  • cruddy,
  • displeasing,
  • unfavorable,
  • most inferior,
  • ill-suited,
  • grody,
  • godawful,
  • arrant,
  • unpleasant,
  • vile,
  • poor,
  • inadequate,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • inadvisable,
  • the pits,
  • detrimental,
  • baneful,
  • poorer,
  • irremediable,
  • junky,
  • not good,
  • sad,
  • bottom out,
  • wretched.
  •blemished (adjective)
  • disfigured,
  • spoiled,
  • blotched,
  • Hacked,
  • gashed,
  • cracked,
  • Scuffed,
  • damaged,
  • Nicked,
  • deformed,
  • splotched,
  • impure,
  • distorted,
  • notched,
  • scarred,
  • scraped,
  • specked,
  • blemished,
  • flecked,
  • tainted,
  • slit,
  • blistered,
  • defaced,
  • tarnished,
  • chipped,
  • spotted,
  • freckled,
  • flawed,
  • discolored,
  • stained,
  • marked,
  • marred,
  • Scored,
  • scratched,
  • pockmarked,
  • Scabbed,
  • abraded.
  •broken (adjective)
  • most fragmented,
  • more shivered,
  • most mangled,
  • more split,
  • in need of repair,
  • most dismembered,
  • out whack,
  • in operable,
  • more slivered,
  • most disintegrated,
  • more mangled,
  • most shattered,
  • most split,
  • more crushed,
  • gone pot,
  • out,
  • kaput,
  • more disintegrated,
  • most shot,
  • most rent,
  • more fractured,
  • most riven,
  • dis-integrated,
  • more riven,
  • more inoperable,
  • more wracked,
  • mangled,
  • most demolished,
  • more demolished,
  • most pulverized,
  • on the shelf,
  • most burst,
  • dis membered,
  • most shivered,
  • most inoperable,
  • more shattered,
  • most fractured,
  • more shredded,
  • more severed,
  • most shredded,
  • on shelf,
  • on fritz,
  • most collapsed,
  • more burst,
  • most crumbled,
  • most busted,
  • out commission,
  • dis integrated,
  • more ruptured,
  • more crumbled,
  • most severed,
  • fragmentary,
  • in need repair,
  • most ruptured,
  • in shop,
  • out order,
  • more busted,
  • more pulverized,
  • more shot,
  • more rent,
  • most wracked,
  • out kilter,
  • dis-membered,
  • in-operable,
  • most slivered,
  • more fragmented,
  • more collapsed,
  • most crushed,
  • gone pieces,
  • more dismembered.
  •broken, not working (adjective)
  • injured,
  • incomplete,
  • out of order,
  • subnormal,
  • abnormal,
  • seconds,
  • unhealthy,
  • insufficient,
  • on the bum.
  •crippled (adjective)
  • in capacitated,
  • most marred,
  • more enfeebled,
  • more hog-tied,
  • most enfeebled,
  • most sidelined,
  • most hamstrung,
  • more hog tied,
  • gimper,
  • more sidelined,
  • de-formed,
  • most hogtied,
  • more housebound,
  • most hog tied,
  • more hamstrung,
  • more marred,
  • lamest,
  • de formed,
  • haltest,
  • more hogtied,
  • in-capacitated,
  • gimp,
  • gimpest,
  • most hog-tied,
  • most housebound.
  •deficient (adjective)
  • third string,
  • outta gas,
  • unassembled,
  • not enough,
  • not up to scratch,
  • not make it,
  • meager,
  • rarest,
  • found wanting,
  • not cut out for.
  •disabled (adjective)
  • crippled.
  •dysfunctional (adjective)
  • wounded,
  • malfunctional.
  •erroneous (adjective)
  • inaccurate,
  • wrong number,
  • Misconceived,
  • all off,
  • incorrect,
  • all wet,
  • Misconstrued,
  • botched,
  • misestimated,
  • false,
  • miscalculated,
  • way off,
  • misjudged,
  • fallacious,
  • inexact,
  • mistaken,
  • illogical.
  •execrable (adjective)
  • heinous.
  •faulty (adjective)
  • more botched,
  • more unretentive,
  • more malfunctioning,
  • most lemon,
  • de based,
  • un reliable,
  • most malfunctioning,
  • more lemon,
  • warped,
  • un-retentive,
  • more imprecise,
  • lemon,
  • most blemished,
  • more blemished,
  • most imprecise,
  • most warped,
  • malformed,
  • more warped,
  • de-based,
  • un-reliable,
  • most unretentive,
  • un retentive,
  • most botched.
  •flimsy (adjective)
  • trans parent,
  • most cutrate,
  • most cut-rate,
  • in firmer,
  • more cutrate,
  • in-firmer,
  • more papery,
  • most cut rate,
  • shallower,
  • more rinkydink,
  • un-substantial,
  • in-substantial,
  • more cut rate,
  • in-firmest,
  • trans-parent,
  • cutrate,
  • more cut-rate,
  • rickety,
  • most rinkydink,
  • most chiffon,
  • in firmest,
  • house cards,
  • most papery,
  • gossamer,
  • in-firm,
  • in substantial,
  • shallow,
  • more chiffon,
  • un substantial.
  •half-witted (adjective)
  • dullwitted,
  • dull witted,
  • more dull-witted,
  • more dullwitted,
  • half witted,
  • most dull-witted,
  • most dull witted,
  • more dull witted,
  • most dullwitted.
  •haywire (adjective)
  • Flipped,
  • psycho,
  • amok,
  • Orderless,
  • haywire,
  • in a mess,
  • unglued,
  • out to lunch,
  • schizo.
  •imperfect (adjective)
  • second-rate,
  • bottom-of-barrel,
  • few bugs,
  • junker,
  • bottom of barrel,
  • two bit.
  •impure (adjective)
  • immoral,
  • sordid,
  • unclean,
  • dirty,
  • slovenly,
  • obscene.
  •inaccurate (adjective)
  • more wayoff,
  • doesnt wash,
  • way-off,
  • wayoff,
  • counter factual,
  • more way-off,
  • most way-off,
  • un faithful,
  • off base,
  • most way off,
  • more way off,
  • in-accurate,
  • un-faithful,
  • in accurate,
  • counter-factual,
  • most wayoff.
  •incomplete (adjective)
  • Unexecuted,
  • Unaccomplished,
  • half-done,
  • under construction,
  • Parter,
  • unconsummated,
  • half done.
  •inoperative (adjective)
  • in-operative,
  • in operative,
  • un workable,
  • un-workable.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • unfitted,
  • too little too late,
  • unample,
  • incapable,
  • short of,
  • out of.
  •jerry-built (adjective)
  • shoddy,
  • jerry-rigged.
  •lacking (adjective)
  • not hacking it,
  • sansest,
  • coming up short,
  • not making it,
  • most needing,
  • Sans,
  • more needing,
  • coming short,
  • cant cut it,
  • can't cut it,
  • most without,
  • more without,
  • sanser,
  • deprived of.
  •laid-up (adjective)
  • laidup.
  •limited (adjective)
  • retarded.
  •minus (adjective)
  • minus.
  •on the blink (adjective)
  • more kerflooey,
  • kerflooey,
  • most kerflooey,
  • on blink.
  •retarded (adjective)
  • more pinhead,
  • simple minded,
  • yo yo,
  • most lamebrained,
  • most yo yo,
  • dim witted,
  • more yo yo,
  • most pinhead,
  • dummiest,
  • most gorked,
  • most yoyo,
  • most dumdum,
  • more underachieving,
  • sub-normal,
  • dummier,
  • most subnormal,
  • more dumbo,
  • sub normal,
  • most yo-yo,
  • under achieving,
  • most retardo,
  • more subnormal,
  • more gorked,
  • more yo-yo,
  • most dumbo,
  • most numbskull,
  • more dumbbell,
  • slowwitted,
  • most underachieving,
  • feeble minded,
  • under-achieving,
  • re-tardo,
  • more lamebrained,
  • re tardo,
  • more dumdum,
  • more numbskull,
  • slow witted,
  • most dumbbell,
  • slow-witted,
  • more yoyo,
  • more retardo.
  •rotten (adjective)
  • dis-eased,
  • dis appointing,
  • dis eased,
  • dis pleasing,
  • dis-appointing,
  • most bruised,
  • un lucky,
  • more bruised,
  • low grade,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • bummest,
  • un pleasant,
  • un luckier,
  • un fortunate,
  • punkest,
  • un happier,
  • un happy,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un-lucky,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • un-pleasant,
  • lowgrade,
  • punker,
  • un-luckier,
  • un luckiest,
  • un happiest,
  • un-happy,
  • dis agreeable.
  •sick (adjective)
  • more declining,
  • in disposed,
  • in-curable,
  • most suffering,
  • sick as dog,
  • more infected,
  • un-healthy,
  • in bad way,
  • under weather,
  • un healthiest,
  • more qualmish,
  • un healthy,
  • more suffering,
  • sickest,
  • most declining,
  • in curable,
  • most infected,
  • under medication,
  • un healthier,
  • most hospitalized,
  • most qualmish,
  • un-healthiest,
  • more hospitalized,
  • in-disposed.
  •sketchy (adjective)
  • uncritical,
  • Depthless.
  •undesirable (adjective)
  • more disliked,
  • more unpleasing,
  • un likable,
  • most unlikable,
  • out place,
  • be avoided,
  • in admissible,
  • un attractive,
  • dis tasteful,
  • in sufferable,
  • more shunned,
  • un-wanted,
  • un-likable,
  • dis liked,
  • un sought,
  • more scorned,
  • out cast,
  • most shunned,
  • most disliked,
  • un-sought,
  • un savorier,
  • most unpleasing,
  • out-cast,
  • in-convenient,
  • most dreaded,
  • un desirable,
  • un-suitable,
  • most outcast,
  • more unlikable,
  • un suitable,
  • more outcast,
  • un savoriest,
  • un-popular,
  • un pleasing,
  • in commodious,
  • un savory,
  • in expedient,
  • most loathed,
  • un-pleasing,
  • dis-liked,
  • un-desirable,
  • in-expedient,
  • un popular,
  • un welcome,
  • in-commodious,
  • un-savorier,
  • un-savoriest,
  • un-savory,
  • more dreaded,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • more loathed,
  • in-admissible,
  • most scorned,
  • in convenient,
  • in-sufferable,
  • un wanted,
  • un-attractive.
  •unfinished (adjective)
  • more unconcluded,
  • un-fashioned,
  • more unfulfilled,
  • most uncompleted,
  • more roughhewn,
  • un fulfilled,
  • more unfashioned,
  • un-completed,
  • most dabbling,
  • un completed,
  • un-finished,
  • most unconcluded,
  • un-fulfilled,
  • most roughhewn,
  • un-perfected,
  • un adorned,
  • most unfashioned,
  • un-adorned,
  • in making,
  • more dabbling,
  • in rough,
  • un fashioned,
  • un-concluded,
  • roughhewn,
  • unfulfilled,
  • un refined,
  • un perfected,
  • un finished,
  • un-refined,
  • not done,
  • most unfulfilled,
  • unadorned,
  • more uncompleted,
  • un concluded,
  • Unfashioned.
  •unintellectual (adjective)
  • half-wit,
  • foolish,
  • imbecilic,
  • moronic,
  • cretinous,
  • unintellectual,
  • unintelligent,
  • idiotic,
  • stupid.
  •unsound (adjective)
  • more unbacked,
  • in-secure,
  • in-congruous,
  • un stable,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-stablest,
  • in securer,
  • un safest,
  • un sound,
  • un-steadier,
  • un-safest,
  • un stabler,
  • not solid,
  • un soundest,
  • un-sounder,
  • un sounder,
  • un-soundest,
  • de-ranged,
  • un-sound,
  • un stablest,
  • in-securest,
  • un steadier,
  • un safer,
  • un steady,
  • in securest,
  • in-securer,
  • un backed,
  • un-backed,
  • un safe,
  • in congruous,
  • un-safer,
  • un-stabler,
  • un steadiest,
  • in secure,
  • un-stable,
  • de ranged,
  • un-safe,
  • most unbacked.
  •wanting (adjective)
  • more away,
  • out gas,
  • more cooked,
  • most cooked,
  • not up par,
  • not to par,
  • co oked,
  • co-oked,
  • most away,
  • not par.
  •wrong (adjective)
  • fluffed,
  • out of line,
  • not precise,
  • on the wrong track,
  • sophistical,
  • misfigured,
  • ungrounded,
  • off-target.

• n.

  •
  • pathetic,
  • worthless,
  • ineffective.
  •
  • better.
  •
  • excess,
  • wanting.
  •amiss (noun)
  • amiss.
  •defective (noun)
  • nonfunctional.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • infertile,
  • Overworked,
  • moribund,
  • nonoperational,
  • small-time,
  • outworn,
  • spent,
  • muted,
  • flaccid,
  • purposeless,
  • flabby,
  • uninformative,
  • otiose,
  • toothless,
  • muddled,
  • pointless,
  • defunct,
  • facile,
  • inefficient,
  • nugatory,
  • lame,
  • bum,
  • futile,
  • unhelpful,
  • useless.
  •
  • empty,
  • bush-league,
  • paper,
  • porous,
  • unresponsive,
  • unreliable,
  • anemic,
  • cumbersome,
  • paralyzed,
  • unproven.
  •
  • inactive,
  • temperamental,
  • idle.
  •
  • old.
  •
  • dead.
  •inaccurate
  • corrupt.
  •Other relevant words:
  • makeshift,
  • Brokenly,
  • awful,
  • beside the mark,
  • bumbling,
  • deviant,
  • blockhead,
  • askew,
  • frail,
  • vilely,
  • callow,
  • unsettled,
  • hurt,
  • handicapped person,
  • not all there,
  • protest,
  • checked,
  • criminally,
  • fragmented,
  • peccant,
  • fault,
  • deface,
  • risky,
  • delusive,
  • split,
  • crazed,
  • compartmentalise,
  • untrue,
  • piecemeal,
  • confused,
  • deficiency,
  • imbecile,
  • ramshackle,
  • dissent,
  • twisted,
  • grotty,
  • deformity,
  • deviative,
  • decayed,
  • shaky,
  • Needing,
  • laid up,
  • Sprung,
  • handicapped,
  • in short supply,
  • dimwit,
  • non-standard,
  • straying,
  • weakened,
  • hypoplastic,
  • uneven,
  • lewdly,
  • disordered,
  • worn,
  • disfigure,
  • paraplegic,
  • shabby,
  • unable,
  • infelicitous,
  • unprepared,
  • big,
  • dilapidated,
  • not right,
  • dunce,
  • SIMP,
  • patchy,
  • foully,
  • aberrant,
  • in arrears,
  • leaky,
  • low quality,
  • errant,
  • imperfection,
  • perverse,
  • defectiveness,
  • vacancy,
  • backward,
  • tottering,
  • underdeveloped,
  • adulterated,
  • scrappy,
  • second-class,
  • deform,
  • carve,
  • lacerate,
  • improperly,
  • badly,
  • defect,
  • maim,
  • emptiness,
  • too little,
  • scant,
  • unacceptable,
  • disturbed,
  • all wrong,
  • blemish,
  • uncollectible,
  • unsuitable,
  • incompletely,
  • poorly,
  • improper,
  • ape,
  • wide,
  • Deteriorated,
  • paralytic,
  • rough,
  • scabby,
  • failing,
  • mediocre,
  • off,
  • undeveloped,
  • wobbly,
  • unqualified,
  • forged,
  • incompetent,
  • golem,
  • Disintegrating,
  • unproved,
  • juggins,
  • waster,
  • born fool,
  • self-contradictory,
  • unthorough,
  • simple,
  • perverted,
  • nonexistent,
  • abroad,
  • lamely,
  • pending,
  • heretical,
  • egregious,
  • debased,
  • immature,
  • insecure,
  • inadequacy,
  • off the track,
  • amateurish,
  • short-handed,
  • HIT,
  • falsely,
  • bruised,
  • infant,
  • unstable,
  • Unmeet,
  • broken-down,
  • groundless,
  • unequal to,
  • ament,
  • inconsistently,
  • corrupted,
  • pimpled,
  • talentless,
  • shy,
  • vacuum,
  • inadequately,
  • on the fritz,
  • exceptional,
  • dissolutely,
  • adrift,
  • deceptive,
  • partial,
  • third-rate,
  • profligately,
  • unsuccessful,
  • unfactual,
  • unworthy,
  • insufficiency,
  • simpleton,
  • dolt,
  • quadriplegic,
  • specious,
  • arrested,
  • Feeble-minded,
  • all abroad,
  • erroneously,
  • scanty,
  • nonstandard,
  • mentally deficient,
  • untenable,
  • blamable,
  • unprofessional,
  • pimply,
  • vicious,
  • inaccurately,
  • amputee,
  • incongruously,
  • insufficiently,
  • mixed,
  • untoward,
  • mutilate,
  • not bright,
  • part,
  • meagre,
  • infirm,
  • defectively,
  • hard,
  • Cicatrized,
  • at fault,
  • inappropriate,
  • incorrectly,
  • harmed,
  • Faultful,
  • unsatisfying,
  • deranged,
  • impotent,
  • missing,
  • be short of,
  • unbecomingly,
  • fool,
  • cripple,
  • unorthodox,
  • distort,
  • undone,
  • faultily,
  • unfounded,
  • dirtily,
  • unscientific,
  • inadequateness,
  • vitiated,
  • substandard,
  • second,
  • Crumbling,
  • awry,
  • unhappy,
  • objection,
  • impair,
  • sorry,
  • unperfected,
  • frailty,
  • in arrear,
  • lousy,
  • hollow,
  • astray,
  • short,
  • flaw,
  • high-risk,
  • heterodox,
  • Naff,
  • half-assed,
  • Kinked,
  • low-grade,
  • crappy,
  • idiot,
  • imperfectly,
  • cretin,
  • deflower,
  • imperfectness,
  • scarce,
  • mistakenly,
  • matter,
  • crude,
  • clot,
  • speculative,
  • raise high,
  • corruptly,
  • weak,
  • skimpy,
  • miserable,
  • embryonic,
  • illusory,
  • gimcrack,
  • feeble,
  • perfunctory,
  • hold high,
  • fallible,
  • injure,
  • moron,
  • trick,
  • slay,
  • Scarified,
  • unsteady,
  • unfit,
  • wrongly,
  • slipshod,
  • crumby,
  • spoilt,
  • crummy,
  • compartmentalize,
  • indifferent,
  • tough,
  • remove,
  • sparse,
  • below par,
  • regretful,
  • emptily,
  • criminal,
  • erring,
  • complaint,
  • disappointing.

Paraphrases for Defective:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    faulty.
  • Proper noun, singular
    faulty.
  • Noun, plural
    faulty.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    faulty.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    insufficient, vitiated, erroneous, damaged, improper, Deteriorated, problematic, wrong, unsound, inaccurate, inappropriate, broken, impaired, dysfunctional, substandard, defaced, misguided, distorted, inefficient, questionable, irregular, spoilt, rugged, abnormal, handicapped, disabled, uneven, devoid, erratic, sub-standard, false, infirm.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    defect, damage.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    deficient, flawed, inadequate, imperfect, dilapidated, incomplete, malfunctioning, unsatisfactory, mistaken, weak.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    malfunctioning.

Antonyms for Defective:

• adj.

  • broken, not working
    sufficient, flawless, unbroken, strong, ample, well, excellent, enough, sound, adequate, working, perfect, faultless.
  • Other antonyms:
    impeccable, undamaged, unimpaired, whole, functioning, complete, intact, unspoiled.

Homophones for Defective:

• depictive.