inefficient

About 3.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.

   Celery is an inefficient food.

2. adjective Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.

   inefficient workers

3. noun A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.

Similar words

ineffective incompetent uneconomical wasteful ineffectiveness inadequate ineffectual insufficient inefficiency useless

Often followed by

and in use to or for as because way

Word family

inefficiently inefficients