Dictionary Definition
flawed adj : having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed
diamond" [syn: blemished]
User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
- That has or have a flaw.
- Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.
- His design a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.
- Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.
Translations
- Finnish: virheellinen
Extensive Definition
A flaw is a defect, fault, or imperfection.
Flaw may also refer to:
- Flaw (band), an American alternative metal band
- Flaw (album), an album by Flaw
- The Flaws, an Irish indie-rock band
- "Flawed" (song), a song by Delta Goodrem
- Flaw, a Lord of Chaos in DC Comics
See also
- Flaw hypothesis methodology, a systems analysis and penetration prediction technique
- Flawfinder, a programming tool
flawed in German: Fehler
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aberrant, abroad, absonant, actionable, adrift, against the law, all
abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark,
black-market, blemished, bootleg, chargeable, checked, cicatrized, contraband, contradictory, contrary to
law, contrary to reason, corrupt, cracked, crazed, criminal, damaged, deceptive, defaced, defective, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, disfigured, distorted, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, felonious, harmed, heretical, heterodox, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, illogical, illusory, impaired, imperfect, impermissible, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential,
inconsistent,
invalid, irrational, irregular, justiciable, keloidal, kinked, lawless, loose, marred, nonconstitutional,
nonlegal, nonlicit, nonscientific, not
following, not right, not true, off, off the track, out, outlaw, outlawed, paralogical, peccant, perverse, perverted, pimpled, pimply, punishable, reasonless, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, self-annulling,
self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, sick, split, spoiled, stained, straying, tainted, tarnished, triable, twisted, unallowed, unauthentic, unauthorized, unconnected, unconstitutional,
under-the-counter, under-the-table, unfactual, unlawful, unofficial, unorthodox, unphilosophical,
unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unstatutory, untrue, unwarrantable, unwarranted, warped, weakened, wide, without reason, wrong, wrongful