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Defective means 'having a defect (= fault)', whereas deficient means 'having a deficiency (or lack)'. So eyesight, components, goods, logic, mechanisms, products, workmanship, etc., can all be defective if they are not working or done properly; and courage, diet, funds, protein, the water supply, etc., can all be deficient if there is not enough of them. Neither word is used any longer in professional contexts relating to mental abnormality, but defective gene is a standard term in genetics.

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An item that does not meet the required standard of a production process.

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1. incomplete, faulty.


2. not reasonably safe for a use that can be reasonably anticipated.
See also product liability ; warranty .

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adjective

1. Having a defect or defects: faulty, imperfect. See better/worse.
2. Lacking an essential element: deficient, incomplete, lacking, wanting. See better/worse, excess/insufficiency/enough.

adj

Definition: broken, not working
Antonyms: excellent, faultless, flawless, perfect, unbroken

Something that is wanting as to an essential; incomplete, deficient, faulty, 331 S.W. 2d 140, 143; also, not reasonably safe for a use which can be reasonably anticipated or for which reason it was purchased.
148 A. 2d 261, 265. See warranty [warranty of fitness, warranty of merchantibility]. See also products liability, strict liability.

IN BRIEF: adj. - Not working properly; Markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; Having a defect.

You should return a defective product.

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