Faulty vs Degraded - What's the difference?
faulty | degraded | Related terms |
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
(obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
(biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
(heraldry) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
(degrade)
Faulty is a related term of degraded.
As adjectives the difference between faulty and degraded
is that faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable while degraded is feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.As a verb degraded is
(degrade).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.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "faulty" is often applied: goods, equipment, product, wiring, construction, memory, thinking, design, hardware, software, unit, part, component, assumption, reasoning, premise, gene, operation, technique, merchandise, circuit, code, analysis, posture, machine, method, habit, process, communication.Antonyms
* faultlessDerived terms
* faultinessdegraded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Netherlands were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. — Motley.
- Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. — Dana.