inefficient

noun

A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.

adjective

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

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

Roots

faciofic- · Latin · make, do

Synonyms for inefficient

ineffectiveadj inefficaciousadj ineffectualadj ineptadj incompetentadj inaptadj incapableadj unapt unskillfuladj

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