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defective

adj. markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"

defective, faulty

adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"

deficient, inferior, substandard

adj. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

bad

adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"

critical

adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

abnormal

adj. much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal ambition"

impaired

adj. diminished in strength, quality, or utility; "impaired eyesight"

scarred

adj. deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury; "Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?"; "a face scarred by anxiety"; "the fire left her arm badly scarred"

bad, risky, high-risk, speculative

adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

dystopian

adj. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag

unsound

adj. not sound financially; "unsound banking practices"

afflicted, impaired

adj. mentally or physically unfit

poor

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

mediocre

adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

aberrant, deviant, deviate

adj. markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

anomalous

adj. deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"

antidromic

adj. conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal

atypical, irregular

adj. deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal; "these days large families are atypical"; "atypical clinical findings"; "atypical pneumonia"; "highly irregular behavior"

brachydactylic, brachydactylous

adj. having abnormally short finger or toes

kinky, perverted

adj. (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices"

exceptional(a)

adj. deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence; "special educational provisions for exceptional children"

freaky

adj. strange and somewhat frightening; "the whole experience was really freaky"

subnormal

adj. below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence"

supernormal

adj. exceeding the normal or average; "years of supernormal employment during the war"; "a phase of supernormal excitability"

blemished, flawed

adj. having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"; "an irregular pair of jeans"

broken

adj. discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"

corrupt, corrupted

adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

perfect

adj. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"

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