Faulty vs Deficient - What's the difference?
faulty | deficient |
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
(obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
Lacking something essential; often construed with'' in .
Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
As adjectives the difference between faulty and deficient
is that faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable while deficient is deficient.faulty
English
Adjective
(er)- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.