defective
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defective (comparative more defective, superlative most defective)
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- Having one or more defects.
- (grammar, of a verb) lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
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having one or more defects
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defective (plural defectives)
- A person considered to be defective.
- 2007 January 15, Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars”, New York Times:
- There were many more kinds of mental institutions at mid-century, ones for “mental defectives and epileptics” and the mentally retarded, psychiatric wards in veterans hospitals, as well as “psychopathic” and private mental hospitals.
- 2007 January 15, Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars”, New York Times: