defective
/dɪˈfɛktɪv/ adjetivo C1En español: defectuoso, defectivo
- Having one or more defects. · If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.· Artillery officers sometimes have defective hearing.
- Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
- Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
- Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
- 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.
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“In point of composition,” said Mary, “his letter does not seem defective.
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