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Webster 1828 Edition
Inefficient
INEFFI'CIENT
,Adj.
1.
Not active; effecting nothing; as an inefficient force.Definition 2024
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See also: inefficiënt
English
Adjective
inefficient (comparative more inefficient, superlative most inefficient)
- Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
- Celery is an inefficient food.
- Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.
- Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
Antonyms
Translations
not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious
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incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing
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