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malfeature

noun

Etymology

From mal- + feature.

  1. inherited from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from faciō — “do, make”
  3. derived from factus
  4. derived from factūra
  5. derived from faiture
  6. derived from feture
  7. inherited from feture
  8. prefixed as malfeature — “mal + feature”

Definitions

  1. A bad feature (cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing).

    • One major malfeature of many present day trimarans is too much exposed window area.
    • Questionable feature for af. Of interest to gps users on various Unix flavors.
    • This work is far from complete, and contains a number of malfeatures that are unfortunately hard-wired into the model.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for malfeature. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA