Malfunctioning vs Faulty - What's the difference?
malfunctioning | faulty |
A malfunction.
* 2011 , Raymond Van Dam, Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul (page 84)
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
(obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
As a verb malfunctioning
is .As a noun malfunctioning
is a malfunction.As an adjective faulty is
having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.malfunctioning
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Both strategies reflect a modern clinical emphasis on the malfunctionings of the psychological and biological processes of the body
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.