different between faulty vs bislama

English

Etymology

fault +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??lti/

Adjective

faulty (comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)

1. 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.

2. (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

Translations

Faroese

Etymology

From Bislama Bislama, from French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”)

Proper noun

bislama

1. the Bislama language

Italian

Noun

bislama m (invariable)

1. Bislama

Anagrams

• balsami

Portuguese

Noun

bislama m (uncountable)

1. Bislama (creole spoken in Vanuatu)

Slovak

Etymology

From Bislama Bislama, from French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bis?ama/

Proper noun

bislama f (genitive bislamy) declension pattern žena

1. the Bislama language

Declension

References

• bislama in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

bislama m (uncountable)

1. Bislama (language)