- Fallible - Flawed - Having faults - Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a
part; deective; deficient. - Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to
successful or normal activity. - 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. - The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the
imperfect tense.
- Be half asleep - Fall half-asleep - Falls half-asleep - Snooze - Take forty winks - To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be
heavy with sleepiness; to doze. - To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to
make dull or stupid.
- Lacking - 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.
- Mar - 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. - To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part;
to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an
instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on
a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.