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Webster 1828 Edition


Inefficient

INEFFI'CIENT

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Adj.
[in and efficient.] Not efficient; not producing the effect; inefficacious.
1.
Not active; effecting nothing; as an inefficient force.

Definition 2024


inefficient

inefficient

See also: inefficiënt

English

Adjective

inefficient (comparative more inefficient, superlative most inefficient)

  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
    Celery is an inefficient food.
  2. 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.

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