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flawed

UK/flɔːd/

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Australia/floːd/

flawed adjective: having a flaw or imperfection.

Adjective

flawed (comparative more flawed, superlative most flawed)

  1. Having a flaw or imperfection.
    • Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.
    • His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.

flawed meaning in Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

flawed in Urdu

غلط, خراب, ناقص

flawed in Telugu

లోపభూయిష్టంగా

flawed in Malayalam

defective, faulty, unsound
വെെകല്യമുള്ള, കോട്ടമുള്ള, കേടുള്ള, തകരാറുള്ള, ദോഷമുള്ള, ന്യൂനതയുള്ള
faulty, unsound, defective
വികലമായ, അബദ്ധമായ, ന്യൂനതയുള്ള, കോട്ടമുള്ള, കുറവുള്ള, വീഴ്ചയുള്ള

Examples of flawed in a sentence

  • He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times:
  • Yet he was correct on every point, meaning that the Plan was deeply flawed from the start.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:

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Antonyms of flawed

Forms of flawed

comparativemore flawed
superlativemost flawed

Origin of flawed

From Middle English flaued, equivalent to flaw + -ed.

Words formed from flawed

Words that rhyme with flawed

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Questions about flawed

What does flawed mean?
Flawed means having a flaw or imperfection.
What is flawed in Urdu?
Flawed in Urdu is غلط, خراب, ناقص. See Flawed meaning in Urdu.
How do you use flawed in a sentence?
He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.
What part of speech is flawed?
Flawed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce flawed?
Flawed is pronounced /flɔːd/ (UK).

Words near flawed in the dictionary

  1. flavs
  2. flavuh
  3. flavylium
  4. flavyliums
  5. flaw
  6. flawed
  7. flawedness
  8. flawful
  9. flawing
  10. flawless
  11. flawlessly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flawed (page history and authors); flawed (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flawed (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flawed (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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