Faulty vs Incomplete - What's the difference?
faulty | incomplete | 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:
Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
(botany) Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.
Something incomplete.
# (Internet) A multipart file posted to Usenet that is incomplete and thus unusable.
# (Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.
A designation of being incomplete.
Faulty is a related term of incomplete.
As adjectives the difference between faulty and incomplete
is that faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable while incomplete is .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
* faultinessincomplete
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (not complete) unwhole, underdone, unfinishedAntonyms
* completeNoun
(en noun)- He got four incompletes out of five courses last semester.