- Having a defect; faulty: a defective appliance.
- Marked by subnormal structure, function, intelligence, or behavior: defective speech.
- Grammar. Lacking one or more of the inflected forms normal for a particular category of word, as the verb may in English.
One who is physically or mentally deficient.
defectively de·fec'tive·ly adv.defectiveness de·fec'tive·ness n.






