faulty

English

Etymology

fault +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒlti/, /ˈfɔːlti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔlti/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑlti/

• Audio (US):

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈfɒːlti]
• Rhymes: -ɒlti, -ɔːlti

Adjective

faulty (comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)

1. Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.

   They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.

   I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day. There was just one old dear sitting halfway back, her faulty hearing aid letting off a high-pitched whistle.

2. (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.

Antonyms

• faultless

Derived terms

• faultily
• faultiness

Collocations

with nouns

• faulty goods
• faulty equipment
• faulty product
• faulty wiring
• faulty construction
• faulty memory
• faulty thinking
• faulty design
• faulty hardware
• faulty software
• faulty unit
• faulty part
• faulty component
• faulty assumption
• faulty reasoning
• faulty premise
• faulty gene
• faulty operation
• faulty technique
• faulty merchandise
• faulty circuit
• faulty code
• faulty analysis
• faulty posture
• faulty machine
• faulty method
• faulty habit
• faulty process
• faulty communication

Translations

having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable

• Bulgarian: погрешен (bg) (pogrešen), неправилен (bg) (nepravilen)
• Catalan: defectuós (ca)
• Czech: vadný (cs)
• Dutch: kapot (nl), gebrekkig (nl)
• Finnish: viallinen (fi), rikkinäinen (fi)
• French: défectueux (fr)
• German: fehlerhaft (de), schadhaft (de)
• Hungarian: hibás (hu)
• Irish: fabhtach
• Italian: difettoso (it), imperfetto (it), scorretto (it)
• Latin: mendōsus, vitīosus
• Maori: muhu
• Ottoman Turkish: چوروك (çürük)
• Russian: неиспра́вный (ru) (neisprávnyj) (defective), ло́жный (ru) (lóžnyj) (false)
• Spanish: defectuoso (es), imperfecto (es)
• Swedish: defekt (sv) (defective), felaktig (sv) (false)
• Ukrainian: несправний (nespravnyj), помилковий (pomylkovyj)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: diffygiol (cy)