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inefficient in English:

1. efficient


He insists on things being done in the most efficient way and he usually does them that way himself.
The English language is undoubtedly the easiest and at the same time the most efficient means of international communication.
I'm efficient.
Some of my colleagues think I spend too long with patients, and that I'm not efficient.
Back in my days, cars weren't so efficient. This coffee machine is quite efficient
Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, Western man came to believe that men and societies would automatically register a corresponding moral and spiritual improvement.
Efficient machinery replaced manual labor.
An efficient FBI agent does not make any bones about carrying out his duties.
The city's transport system is one of the most efficient in Europe. We need someone really efficient who can organize the office and make it run smoothly. She runs the business very efficiently.
Good customer service has to deal with customer's problems in an efficient way.
The new refrigerator is more energy-efficient. He is a very efficient worker.
1. In addition, manufacturers must introduce an efficient monitoring system.
fluorescent lamps are efficient at converting electricity into light
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man...

English word "inefficient"(efficient) occurs in sets:

postive negative adjective

2. not working in the best possible way



3. ineffective


Luckily, the treatment was only ineffective instead of harmful.
A plethora of ineffective education programs made the president unpopular amongst fiscal conservatives.
Five self-help books later, Sergey still had a terribly ineffective approach to management.
It began to dawn on me that, to oppose political and social chaos, cultured means would be ineffective.

4. not well organized and skilled



5. unproductive


I believe it would be unproductive with regard to the present recovery.
The whole dispute proved to be unproductive.

6. productive


I think our cooperation has become even smoother and more productive.
The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.
You should spend less time complaining and more time doing something productive.
For years I thought that I was a productive person.
My subordinates are productive.
I had a very productive day of cooking yesterday; I made soup, biscuits, and two pies.
Americans spend most of their lives working, being productive.
This factory's productive capacity is 250 cars a week.
Tobacco smoke is productive of cancer.
After hours of browsing TV Tropes, Lyle could predict the ending of any show. This gave him a distaste for entertainment that, in a roundabout way, enabled him to make time for a more productive life.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
but I haven’t been very productive."
We had a productive meeting and sorted out many problems.
A very productive introductory lesson.
Let's do something productive instead of arguing who's right and who's wrong.