defectiveadj/dɪˈfɛktɪv/

• 1

  Having one or more defects.

  • If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.
  • Artillery officers sometimes have defective hearing.
• 2

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsLacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.

• 3

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsHaving a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).

• 4

  communicationsjournalismliteratureNot capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.

• 5

  Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.

defectiveadv/dɪˈfɛktɪv/

• 1

  Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.

  • For the sake of comparison, note the distribution of these spellings in some other Hebrew sources: in the MT the vowel o after the first consonant of the root is written defective in approximately 3,600 cases as against 850 cases of plene spelling.

defectivenoun/dɪˈfɛktɪv/

• 1

  A person or thing considered to be defective.

  • It is an offence, subject to the exception mentioned in this section, for a person to procure a woman who is a defective to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world.
  • There were many more kinds of mental institutions at mid-century, ones for "mental defectives and epileptics" and the mentally retarded, psychiatric wards in veterans hospitals, as well as "psychopathic" and private mental hospitals.
• 2

  A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

  • Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated.