The word "flaw" is not used often in everyday communication, it is mainly found in literary works. And although this is not the most common word, knowing its meaning is still useful to every intelligent person. We will understand what a flaw is. The article will also consider synonyms of the word and examples of use.
Definition
What is a flaw? This word has two meanings: the first is vice, an undesirable trait (development, character or behavior), a weak spot. The second value is damage, lack (of funds, resources).
In modern literary speech, the first definition is usually used.
In most explanatory dictionaries, to answer the question of what is a flaw, the authors provide a list of synonyms with which to replace this word, because it is quite difficult to define without them.
The word fell into Russian from the Persian language.
Examples
To better understand what a flaw is, we give examples of the use of this word:
- "He is a good person, but he has one flaw - he drinks too much."
- "She was very attractive, but flaws in her behavior annoyed those present."
In the above examples, this word means a flaw. It can be replaced by this synonym in all the above sentences. A defect - a synonym for the word flaw - can also be used. Other synomas can be used: vice, imperfection, weakness, weakness - which are used depending on the context, for example like this:
- "His friend is hiding his physical vice from everyone."
- "Its main flaw is irritability."
- "There is one flaw in your work - too superficial analysis."
- "She tried to hide defects in her pronunciation, but she didn’t succeed."
Lack of material resources, resources, labor, loss can also be described using this word or its synonyms:
- "Ivan wanted to buy horses, but was flawed in money."
- "The peasant built a hut, but was a flaw in the worker."
Now in this sense the word is used extremely rarely, mainly in literature to create a certain style in historical books.