Meaning of inefficient | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.

Equivalents

Examples

“Celery is an inefficient food.”

“inefficient workers”

“an inefficient administrator”

“Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.”

“The Defense Department, for example, has greatly expanded competitive bidding and is this year submitting to Congress the first-ever 2-year defense budget to replace the old, inefficient, year-by-year process.”

“[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.”

CEFR level