different between faulty vs depraved

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?vd/

Verb

depraved

1. simple past tense and past participle of deprave

Adjective

depraved (comparative more depraved, superlative most depraved)

1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
2. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
   • 1916, Veterinary Medicine (volume 11, page 759)

     There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

Derived terms

• depraved-heart murder
• depravedly
• depravedness

Related terms

• deprave
• depravity

Translations

Anagrams

• pervaded