Inefficient

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  • adjective. Not efficient, as.
  • adjective. Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; incompetent.
  • adjective. Not producing the intended result; ineffective.
  • adjective. Wasteful of time, energy, or materials.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not efficient; not producing or not capable of producing the desired effect; incapable; incompetent; inadequate: as, inefficient measures; an inefficient police.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired, or achieiving the effect by unnnecessary and excessive expenditure of resources; inefficacious.
  • adjective. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
  • adjective. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate
  • adjective. not producing desired results; wasteful
  • Word Usage
    "SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Well, on Monday, former US president Bill Clinton fired back and railed against what he called inefficient spending of AIDS funds and said many countries are misspending foreign aid."
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