inefficient
adjEtymology
From in- + efficient.
- derived from efficientem
Definitions
Not efficient
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
- Celery is an inefficient food.
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.
- inefficient workers
- an inefficient administrator
- Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
- Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]
- A general shaking up of the workers from top to bottom would result; and when equilibrium had been restored, the number of the inefficients at the bottom of the Abyss would have been increased by hundreds of thousands.
The neighborhood
- antonymefficient
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at inefficient. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at inefficient. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at inefficient
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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