Inefficient
[ɪnɪ'fɪʃ(ə)nt] or [,ɪnɪ'fɪʃnt]
Definition
(adj.) not producing desired results; wasteful; 'an inefficient campaign against drugs'; 'outdated and inefficient design and methods' .
Typed by Anatole--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
(a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
Inputed by Harlow
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Weak, feeble, impotent, powerless.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For the purposes of the Commission democracy is an inefficient weapon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such machines were confessedly inefficient, although representing the farthest reach of a young art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The best fine grinding-machines that it was then possible to obtain were so inefficient as to involve a loss of 82 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Not possible--or so inefficient, so careless a mamma; I should make a five times better one. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ledlie besides being otherwise inefficient, proved also to possess disqualification less common among soldiers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Paul