leaky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: leak=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

leaky, a. 

•  Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask; a leaky faucet.  [1913 Webster]
•  Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.  [1913 Webster]
•  Retaining some function; not completely inactivating the gene; as, substitution mutations are sometimes leaky; -- of mutations.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

leaky, adj. (leakier, leakiest)
1 having a leak or leaks.
2 given to letting out secrets.

Derivative

leakiness n.

ROGET THESAURUS

leaky

Imperfection

N imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.