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faultful

faultful adjective: with faults or sins; not perfect; flawed.

Adjective

faultful (comparative more faultful, superlative most faultful)

  1. With faults or sins; not perfect; flawed.
    • So fares it with this faultful lord of Rome,
      Who this accomplishment so hotly chas'd;
      For now against himself he sounds this doom,
      That through the length of times he stands difgrac'd1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    fallible, imperfect

Synonyms of faultful

Antonyms

Forms of faultful

comparativemore faultful
superlativemost faultful

Origin of faultful

From fault + -ful.

Words formed from faultful

Questions about faultful

What does faultful mean?
Faultful means with faults or sins; not perfect; flawed.
What part of speech is faultful?
Faultful is an adjective.

Words near faultful in the dictionary

  1. faultfinders
  2. faultfinding
  3. faultfindings
  4. faultfinds
  5. faultfound
  6. faultful
  7. faultfully
  8. faultier
  9. faultiest
  10. faultily
  11. faultiness

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