inefficient

[ in-i-fish-uh nt ]

/ ˌɪn ɪˈfɪʃ ənt /

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adjective

not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.

lacking in ability, incompetent.

Origin of inefficient

First recorded in 1740–50; in-³ + efficient

SYNONYMS FOR inefficient

2 See incapable.

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in·ef·fi·cient·ly, adverb

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These ores were worked by the ancients, but so inefficiently that their spoil-heaps can be smelted again with profit.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 |Various
The cantons were supreme; and governed as inefficiently as other governments under the protecting shade of the Holy Alliance.

The History of Freedom |John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Perhaps Lansa's ray-guns were lacking in power because inefficiently made.

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Justice must not fail because the agencies of enforcement are either delinquent or inefficiently organized.

United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches |Various

And he says there is enough subsistence in the country, but that the Commissary Department is inefficiently administered.

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital |John Beauchamp Jones

British Dictionary definitions for inefficiently

inefficient

/ (ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənt) /

adjective

unable to perform a task or function to the best advantage; wasteful or incompetent

unable to produce the desired result

Derived forms of inefficient

inefficiency, noun inefficiently, adverb

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