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Incomplete :: Incomplete (a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective..

Unsound :: Unsound (a.) Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.

Indefective :: Indefective (a.) Not defective; perfect; complete.

Mutilous :: Mutilous (a.) Mutilated; defective; imperfect.

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale..

Rotten :: Rotten (a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone..

Vicious :: Vicious (a.) Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

Inadequacy :: Inadequacy (n.) The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

Whole :: Whole (a.) Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole..

Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..

Reform :: Reform (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government..

Short :: Short (superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith..

Sound :: Sound (superl.) Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land..

Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..

Sand-blind :: Sand-blind (a.) Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.

Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery..

Reordain :: Reordain (v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective..

Confute :: Confute (v. t.) To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Amateurish :: Amateurish (a.) In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

Mar :: Mar (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface..

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