inefficient
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inefficient
- /ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
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adjective more inefficient · most inefficient
- Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious. Celery is an inefficient food.
- Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing. inefficient workers
Opposite: efficient
noun inefficients
- A person who cannot or does not work efficiently. Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: ineffective, incompetent, uneconomical, wasteful, ineffectiveness, inadequate, ineffectual, insufficient, inefficiency, useless, inept, unproductive, uneconomic, unsuccessful, inoperative, deficient
adjective
Opposite: efficient
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adj not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired
| Español | ineficiente, ineficaz |
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| Português | ineficiente |
| Français | inefficace |
| Italiano | inefficiente, inadeguato, inefficace |
| Română | neeficient, ineficient |
adj incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action
| Italiano | a scartamento ridotto |
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