Defective vs Unfriendly - What's the difference?
defective | unfriendly | Related terms |
Having one or more defects.
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lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
A person considered to be defective.
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not friendly; hostile; mean
unfavourable
An enemy.
* 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)
* 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)
Defective is a related term of unfriendly.
As adjectives the difference between defective and unfriendly
is that defective is while unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean.As a noun unfriendly is
an enemy.defective
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Adjective
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "defective" is often applied: merchandise, goods, part, component, product, equipment, gene, unit, construction, design, drug, memory, wiring, machine, device, instrument, hardware, software, vehicle.Synonyms
* faultyNoun
(en noun)citation
See also
*unfriendly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* friendlyDerived terms
* user-unfriendlyNoun
(unfriendlies)- Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
- You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).