inefficient

CEFRB2

/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/

adjective

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Examples

That's a very inefficient way to do that.
The program's memory management was so inefficient that it actually damaged the RAM somehow!

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.

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The Defense Department, for example, has greatly expanded competitive bidding and is this year submitting to Congress the first-ever 2-year defense budget to replace the old, inefficient, year-by-year process.
1987 January 17, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address
[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
2007 October 13, Will Hutton, “Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev?”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025
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.
1903, Jack London, The People of the Abyss, Chapter 17

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From in- + efficient.