Defective is valid Scrabble Word

Is defective a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is defective valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for DEFECTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a person who is subnormal in physical or mental powers
a person with mental disabilities.

ADJECTIVE:

deficient
imperfect or faulty
lacking or deficient
(of a word) not having all the inflections normal for the part of speech.
having mental disabilities.
imperfect, faulty
Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.

having a defect
markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior
not working properly

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

imperfect in form or function; faulty; falling below the norm in structure or in mental or physical function

Words related to DEFECTIVE

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Words that contain DEFECTIVE

defectives19 defectively23 defectiveness22 defectivenesses24

How to use DEFECTIVE in a sentence

The history of these games is unfortunately very defective, and hardly extends farther back than the beginning of the sixteenth century.
They delight to impart their defective discoveries as they arise, without waiting for their full developement.
If they are not conclusive, I should be glad to be shown wherein they are defective.
One and all would have been moved to indignant surprise if accused of ignorance or defective breeding.
Put what is left you of that right arm to the best uses you can in this world, and never again mention or feel that it is defective so long as you live.
When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well.
The greater the proportion and the fertility of the defective, the less hope for the future.
He does not like to sell anything that is in any way defective.
Intellectual training is defective where these elements are neglected, and their importance to the sexes may be equal.
From the beginning he was regarded by the jail officials as rather silly and defective.

Necessarily there will be some who are defective amongst men, but it is our duty to enable them by kind methods of guidance and teaching to become perfected.
When he found families in which such defective children occurred, he then inquired as to their ancestry.
And so the definition of the Doctor is defective, inasmuch as it makes no distinction between soil and manure.
His memory was most defective, as I was obliged to introduce myself on each occasion, and tell him the object of my call.
TEACHING IN SCHOOLS FOR THE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE.
Those which are born after the time are usually defective and unfit for use.
Up to a recent period the Yankees had all the advantage of the defective state of the law.
In one respect the Federal position seemed radically defective.
It is the same mistake which we frequently see among laborers whose vision has become defective in one of their eyes, or one of whose eyes is temporarily bandaged.
There is the defective training of children, defective physical training to begin with, and then the failure to equip them with any particular and definite form of skill.
Many of these guns were defective and even dangerous.
We may admit that, as a matter of historical and present fact, Utility has been everywhere tacitly accepted as the basis of morality, defective as it is as a theory.
This last proposition indicates the defective information which Carnot possessed.
Their character, as it is defective, has been explained also.

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