Faulty vs Unsuitable - What's the difference?
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Faulty is a related term of unsuitable. As adjectives the difference between faulty and unsuitable is that faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable while unsuitable is not suitable; unfit; inappropriate.
faulty English
Adjective
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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
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unsuitable English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Not suitable; unfit; inappropriate.
Antonyms
* suitable
Derived terms
* unsuitably
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