Word Meanings - DEFECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.

• Lackeying
  of Lackey
• Natural
  Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or pla
• Timberhead
  The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
• Wantrust
  Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.
• Applicable
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.
• Characteristic
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
• Imperfection
  The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
• Lackluster
  Alt. of Lacklustre
• Naturalism
  A state of nature; conformity to nature.
• Timberling
  A small tree.
• Wantwit
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.
• Applicancy
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• Characteristical
  Characteristic.
• Imperfectness
  The state of being imperfect.
• Lacklustre
  A want of luster.
• Naturalist
  One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.
• Timbermen
  of Timberman
• Account
  A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
• Applicant
  One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.

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