defective vs deficient
Definitions
adjective
- not working properly
- markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior
- having a defect
Examples
Often they were offloading defective goods they could not sell at a shop.
Barot A, Kleckner N (2008) Yeast Pch2 promotes domainal axis organization, timely recombination progression, and arrest of defective recombinosomes during meiosis.
He guessed that the original cutting stylus was defective and so he tried a custom-made reproducing stylus, instead of the usual conical or elliptical styli.
Definitions
adjective
- inadequate in amount or degree
- falling short of some prescribed norm
- of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
Examples
Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms.
For example, if your diet is deficient in vitamin A, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, bioflavonoids or vitamin E, a heavier than normal menstruation could result.
Cataract patients also tend to be deficient in vitamin A and the carotenes, lutein and zeaxanthin.
