Inefficient Definition

ĭnĭ-fĭshənt
adjective
Not efficient.
Webster's New World
Wasteful of time, energy, or materials.
An inefficient design; outdated and inefficient methods.
American Heritage

Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.

Celery is an inefficient food.
Wiktionary

Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.

Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
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Inefficient Sentence Examples

  • We will radically improve the primitive, inefficient process that agriculture is today.

  • This is useful as too large a heater will be inefficient to run.

  • These systems are all inefficient for spontaneous respiration (Figure 4).

  • Tankless hot water heaters eliminate the need for energy inefficient water tanks.

  • Leaky windows, poor insulation, old water heaters and inefficient heating systems waste a lot of energy.

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