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Meaning of "defectible" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEFECTIBLE

defectible  [dɪˈfɛktəb əl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEFECTIBLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Defectible is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEFECTIBLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of defectible in the English dictionary

The definition of defectible in the dictionary is having the liability to become imperfect, deficient or fall short.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEFECTIBLE


adjustable
əˈdʒʌstəb əl
collectible
kəˈlɛktəb əl
comptable
ˈkɒmptəb əl
contractable
kənˈtræktəb əl
contractible
kənˈtræktəb əl
contradictable
ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktəb əl
convictable
kənˈvɪktəb əl
convictible
kənˈvɪktəb əl
correctable
kəˈrɛktəb əl
correctible
kəˈrɛktəb əl
detectable
dɪˈtɛktəb əl
detectible
dɪˈtɛktəb əl
dissectible
dɪˈsɛktəb əl
distractable
dɪˈstræktəb əl
editable
ˈɛdɪtəb əl
ejectable
ɪˈdʒɛktəb əl
enactable
ɪnˈæktəb əl
erectable
ɪˈrɛktəb əl
expectable
ɪkˈspɛktəb əl
extractible
ɪkˈstræktəb əl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEFECTIBLE

defeater
Defeaticrat
defeatism
defeatist
defeature
defecate
defecation
defecator
defect
defectibility
defection
defectionist
defective
defectively
defectiveness
defector
defeminisation
defeminise
defeminization
defeminize

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEFECTIBLE

accessible
biocompatible
combustible
comestible
compatible
constructible
convertible
deductible
digestible
imperceptible
imprescriptible
incompatible
indestructible
inexhaustible
interruptible
irresistible
patible
perceptible
perfectible
susceptible
tax-deductible

Synonyms and antonyms of defectible in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «defectible» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEFECTIBLE

Find out the translation of defectible to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of defectible from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «defectible» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

defectible
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

defectible
570 millions of speakers

English

defectible
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

defectible
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

defectible
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

defectible
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

defectible
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

defectible
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

défectible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cacat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

defectible
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

defectible
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

defectible
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cacat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

defectible
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

defectible
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दोषरहित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

defectible
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

defectible
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

defectible
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

defectible
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

defectible
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

defectible
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

defectible
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

defectible
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

defectible
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of defectible

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFECTIBLE»

The term «defectible» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.579 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFECTIBLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «defectible» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «defectible» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about defectible

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEFECTIBLE»

Discover the use of defectible in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to defectible and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
God's Permission of Sin: Negative Or Conditioned Decree?: A ...
The minor describes what man is, essentially, before Him. He is not, essentially, the one who moves himself. He only does this as a secondary, subordinate cause to God's first initiative. Mather, man is a defectible being, one who can fail or not ...
Michael D. Torre, 2009
2
Do Not Reisist the Spirit's Call
Even were grace and the will, and not grace alone, the causes of the act, so long as the will could never fail—that is, were it not defectible—neither could it ever be the case that one have unequal effects with equal graces; because the creature ...
Michael D. Torre, 2013
3
Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Exegesis ...
Hence, as God ordains from all eternity the whole sum of creation, and knows what he causes, he knows evil indirectly in two ways: first in the permissive decree in which he does not sustain a defectible creature in good for the sake of some ...
Michael Dauphinais, Matthew Levering, 2005
4
Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism ...
AsRetz objected onDescartes's behalf, making indefectibility necessary to matterseemed to require that God's actions be constrained sothatmatter could not be created as defectible. Putting limitson God's power would seemto counter ...
Tad M. Schmaltz, 2012
5
The light of truth, and pleasure of light: In four books. ...
If heaven, which is said to be God's throne, be, or ever was inhabited by defectible beings, the place itself must be a defectible place ; and why the Almighty should take up his special abode in such a place, surrounded by defectible beings, we ...
‎1827
6
A Discourse Concerning: I. The True Import of the Words ...
And, idly, his Sin, had he fallen after he had begotten Ten Children, must have involved all the rest in this fad Doom; so that his whole righteous Life could have only procured to his Posterity a defectible Righteousness, liable continually to ...
Daniel Whitby, 1710
7
Six Discourses, Concerning I. Election and Reprobation. II. ...
His fin, had he fallen after he had begotten ten children, must have involved all the rest in this fad doom ; so that his whole righteous life could have only procured to his posterity a defectible righteousness, liable, continually to interruption by ...
Daniel Whitby, 1801
8
A treatise on atonement: in which the finite nature of sin ...
If Heaven, which is said to be God's throne, be, or ever were inhabited by defectible beings the place itself must be a defectible place ; and why the Almighty should take up his special abode in a defec- table place, surrounded by defectible ...
Hosea Ballou, 1839
9
Aquinas Of God & His Creatures:
675 But everything about our selves proves to be manifold, variable, and defectible. Our choices are evidently manifold, since different things are chosen by different persons in different circumstances. They are likewise mutable, as well on ...
Aquinas
10
A discourse concerning, i. The true import of the words ...
his righteousness being defectible, he could have only derived upon them a defectible righteousness, which must have left them still as liable to fall as he himself was; and then their posterity must have been in the same sad case in which ...
Daniel Whitby, 1817

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEFECTIBLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term defectible is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why did the German bishops fail to raise their voice against the Nazis?
Have you people no shame that you still fail to recognise that we are STILL very much a sinful, defectible pilgrim church. pbecke. «Catholic Herald Online, May 15»

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