inefficient
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
Example
“Celery is an inefficient food.”
Other meanings
incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.
“inefficient workers”
Antonyms
- efficient
Related words
- inefficiently
Where this comes from
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