| Main Entry: | imperfect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flawed |
Synonyms: |
amiss, below par, bottom-of-barrel, broken, damaged, defective, deficient, disfigured, dud, faulty, few bugs, garbage*, immature, impaired, incomplete, inexact, injured, junk*, lemon, limited, low, marred, minus, partial, patchy, rudimentary, schlocky, sick, sketchy, two-bit, undeveloped, unfinished, unsound, vicious, warped |
Antonyms: |
excellent, faultless, finished, perfect, pure, unblemished, unflawed |
| Main Entry: | amiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; defective |
Synonyms: |
awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, foul, glitched up, haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order, sick, unfair, unlawful, unsuitable, untoward |
Antonyms: |
good, right |
| Main Entry: | approximate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexact |
Synonyms: |
estimated, guessed, imperfect, imprecise, loose, rough, surmised, uncertain, unprecise, unscientific |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
Synonyms: |
abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
| Main Entry: | bastard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, baseborn, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, misborn, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, ungenuine |
Antonyms: |
legitimate |
| Main Entry: | below par |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | second-rate in quality |
Synonyms: |
below average, imperfect, inferior, lacking, not oneself, off, off-form, poor, substandard, under the weather, wanting |
| Main Entry: | broken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working |
Synonyms: |
busted, coming unglued, coming unstuck, defective, disabled, down, exhausted, fallen apart, faulty, feeble, gone, gone to pieces, gone to pot, haywire, imperfect, in disrepair, in need of repair, in the shop, inoperable, kaput, not functioning, on the blink, on the fritz, on the shelf, out, out of commission, out of kilter, out of order, out of whack, ruined, run-down, screwed up, shot, spent, unsatisfactory, weak, wracked, wrecked |
Antonyms: |
fixed, unbroken, working |
| Main Entry: | broken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuttering in speech |
Synonyms: |
disjointed, halting, hesitant, hesitating, imperfect, incoherent, mumbled, muttered, stammering, unintelligible, weak |
Antonyms: |
continuous, flowing |
| Main Entry: | damaged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, not working |
Synonyms: |
beat-up, bent, blemished, busted, dinged, down, flawed, flubbed, fouled up, glitched, gone, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in need of repair, in poor condition, in smithereens, injured, kaput, loused up, marred, messed up, mucked up, no go, on the blink, on the fritz, out of action, out of kilter, out of whack, run-down, screwed up, shot, snafued, spoiled, sunk, totaled, unsound |
Antonyms: |
fixed, mended, ok, perfect, repaired, unbroken, undamaged, working |
| Main Entry: | defective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, not working |
Synonyms: |
abnormal, amiss, blemished, damaged, deficient, faulty, flawed, impaired, imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, injured, insufficient, lacking, on the bum, out of order, poor, seconds, sick, subnormal, unfinished, unhealthy, unsound, wanting |
Antonyms: |
excellent, faultless, flawless, perfect, unbroken |