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Warped vs Faulty - What's the difference?

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Warped is a related term of faulty.


As adjectives the difference between warped and faulty

is that warped is distorted by warping; twisted out of shape while faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.

As a verb warped

is (warp).

warped

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape
  • (figuratively) Of a person's mind, attitude, humour etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant.

    • Derived terms

    * warpedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (warp)

    • 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