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Whole :: Whole (a.) Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole..

Defective :: Defective (a.) Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb..

Insufficient :: Insufficient (a.) Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality..

Unsound :: Unsound (a.) Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.

Deficient :: Deficient (a.) Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment..

Adesmy :: Adesmy (n.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..

Mutilous :: Mutilous (a.) Mutilated; defective; imperfect.

Valid :: Valid (a.) Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection..

Indefective :: Indefective (a.) Not defective; perfect; complete.

Round :: Round (a.) Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style..

Confute :: Confute (v. t.) To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Dichromic :: Dichromic (a.) Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three..

Sand-blind :: Sand-blind (a.) Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.

Sound :: Sound (superl.) Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land..

Stammerer :: Stammer (n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter..

Apepsy :: Apepsy (n.) Defective digestion, indigestion..

Incompleteness :: Incompleteness (n.) The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness.

Remitter :: Remitter (n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit..

Imperfect :: Imperfect (a.) Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.

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