Flaw

Quick meaning: Flaw is a noun meaning A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

Meaning

A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

More Meanings

1. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
2. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
3. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
5. A storm of short duration.
6. (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
7. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.

Example Sentences

That vase has a flaw.

There is a flaw in that knife.

And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw

Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?

Word Forms

• flaws
• flawing
• flawed
• flawe

Synonyms for flaw

Depending on context, synonyms include vice, tumult, uproar, quarrel, defect, blemish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blemish, fault, defect, chink, hack, slit.

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