defectiveness
121deficiency — n. 1. Want, lack, defectiveness, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, meagreness, dearth, scarcity, shortage, deficit. 2. Failing, failure, frailty, infirmity, imperfection, foible, fault, error, weakness, weak side, blind side …
122failure — n. 1. Deficiency, defectiveness, shortcoming. 2. Omission, neglect, fail, non performance, non observance. 3. Miscarriage, botch, abortion, ill success, flash in the pan, labor for one s pains, losing game, wild goose chase, sleeveless errand. 4 …
123imperfection — n. 1. Defectiveness, faultiness, incompleteness, want of perfection. 2. Defect, lack, fault, blemish, stain. 3. Weakness, frailty, liability to err, limitation. 4. Weakness, frailty, foible, failing, vice …
124inadequacy — n. 1. Insufficiency, inadequateness. 2. Incompleteness, defectiveness, imperfection …
125insufficiency — n. Inadequateness, inadequacy, incompetence, deficiency, lack, defectiveness, dearth …
126lack — I. v. a. Want, need, be in want of, be in need of, be destitute of, be without. II. v. n. 1. Be in want. 2. Be wanting. III. n. Need, deficiency, destitution, want, scantiness, insufficiency, scarcity, dearth, default, defectiveness, shortness,… …
127want — I. n. 1. Deficiency, absence, lack, dearth, default, defect. 2. Inadequacy, scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, meagreness, shortness, defectiveness, failure, insufficiency, deficiency, paucity, poverty. 3. Need, necessity, requirement, desideratum …
128defective — adjective 1 not made properly, or not working properly: defective components 2 technical defective verb a verb such as must or can that cannot be used in all the forms that a verb can usually be used in defectively adverb defectiveness noun (U) …
