INEFFICIENT

ineffective, inefficient

(adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; “an ineffective administration”; “inefficient workers”

inefficient

(adjective) not producing desired results; wasteful; “an inefficient campaign against drugs”; “outdated and inefficient design and methods”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

inefficient (comparative more inefficient, superlative most inefficient)

Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious

Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing

Antonyms

• efficient

Noun

inefficient (plural inefficients)

A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.

A general shaking up of the workers from top to bottom would result; and when equilibrium had been restored, the number of the inefficients at the bottom of the Abyss would have been increased by hundreds of thousands.

Source: Wiktionary


In`ef*fi"cient, a.

1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.

2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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