Usually means: Not functioning as originally intended.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word defective:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. defective: Merriam-Webster
  2. defective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defective, defective: Wordnik
  7. defective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defective: Wiktionary
  9. defective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. defective: Dictionary.com
  13. defective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Defective (disambiguation), Defective: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Defective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. defective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. defective: Rhymezone
  18. defective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. defective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. defective: FreeDictionary.org
  21. defective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. defective: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. defective: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. defective: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. defective: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. defective: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. defective: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Defective: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  7. defective: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defective: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. defective: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. defective: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defective: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Defective: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See defectively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having one or more defects.
adjective:  (grammar, of a lexeme, especially a verb) Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
adjective:  (Arabic grammar, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
adjective:  (orthography, of a script) Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
adjective:  (chiefly of abjad script) Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.
adverb:  (chiefly of abjad script) Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
noun:  A person or thing considered to be defective.
noun:  (chiefly of abjad script) A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

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