Faulty vs Obnoxious - What's the difference?
faulty | obnoxious | 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:
Extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.
(archaic) exposed to harm or injury.
* 1661 , , page 26,
Faulty is a related term of obnoxious.
As adjectives the difference between faulty and obnoxious
is that faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable while obnoxious is extremely unpleasant, offensive, very annoying, odious or contemptible.faulty
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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
* faultinessobnoxious
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Alternative forms
* obnoctious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was an especially obnoxious and detestable specimen of a man.
- Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
- To begin then with his Experiment of the burning Wood, it seems to me to be obnoxious to not a few considerable Exceptions.