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Malfunctioning vs Faulty - What's the difference?

malfunctioning | faulty |

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)
  • A malfunction.
  • * 2011 , Raymond Van Dam, Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul (page 84)
    • Both strategies reflect a modern clinical emphasis on the malfunctionings of the psychological and biological processes of the body

    faulty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
    • 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

    * faultless

    Derived terms

    * faultiness