Crossword clues for inefficient
inefficient
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inefficient \In`ef*fi"cient\, a.
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired, or achieiving the effect by unnnecessary and excessive expenditure of resources; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures; inefficient methods are too expensive.
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2 incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.
WordNet
adj. not producing desired results; wasteful; "an inefficient campaign against drugs"; "outdated and inefficient design and methods" [ant: efficient]
lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient workers" [syn: ineffective]
Usage examples of "inefficient".
If this region is largely developed, the constitution is languid, inefficient, sensitive, and abnormally disposed.
Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.
When you are dehydrated, your level of energy is decreased and your brain function is inefficient.
As the train services hissed to a regretful halt, the population became shiveringly aware that what flowed in the arteries of the nation was nothing less than fuel oil and that someone or other had devoted inefficient thought to esuring that it would get from the terminals to the distribution points.
A captain of industry who whips a corrupt and inefficient Central American kleptocracy into fighting shape within weeks.
On the contrary, he came to regard all Chinese as corrupt, inefficient, unreliable, triple-damned, steal-you-blind, hopeless, slopey sons-of-bitches.
Its industrial systems were outdated and inefficient by now, but processing of the hydrogen allotrope continued.
We switched over to the manometer, which was inefficient for some reason.
The human body was a puny, weak, ill-balanced miscreation, its vital systems fragile and inefficient.
From the viewpoint of a rationing system a middleman who distributes the product in violation and disregard of the prescribed quotas is an inefficient and wasteful conduct.
Then we knew that the cavalry column sent out under Stoneman had been so badly handled by that inefficient commander that it had failed ridiculously in its object, being beaten in detail, and suffering the loss of its commander and a considerable portion of its numbers.
I soap myself down methodically then wash my hair, taking care to rub the inefficient surfactant gel into my scalp.
A provision that claims resulting from rejection of an unexpired lease should be treated as on a parity with provable debts, but limited to an amount equal to three years rent, was held not to amount to a taking of property without due process of law, since it provided a new and more certain remedy for a limited amount, in lieu of an existing remedy inefficient and uncertain in result.
The minute vessels when paralysed offer inefficient resistance to the force of the heart, and the pulsating organ thus liberated, like the main-spring of a clock from which the resistance has been removed, quickens in action, dilating the feebly resistant vessels, and giving evidence really not of increased, but of wasted power.
Furthermore, the round ball used was very inefficient aerodynamically, limiting range and accuracy.