0 not organized, skilled, or able to work in a satisfactory way:
Existing methods of production are expensive and inefficient.
I'm hopelessly inefficient at fixing things.
1 wasting time, money, energy, or other valuable possessions or qualities:
Many of their industries are hopelessly inefficient.
2 using resources such as time, materials, or labour in a way that wastes them:
An inefficient tax system could thus have survived if political rigidities prevented a ruler from changing it.
Ultimately, the destructor proved inefficient and, as its name implies, it left a strong legacy of disposal.
When punishment was available, they observed relatively more cooperation in an otherwise inefficient voting environment.
But solving the dynamical system is a difficult and inefficient method, because it usually requires numerical integrations.
Designated in the language of business "modernism" as backward, localist, and inefficient, batch firms in time came to resemble that definition.
Recursion is perceived to be more difficult to understand than loops, and also believed to be inefficient.
Almost inevitably, monitoring will be inefficient and may become unstructured exercises in data gathering unless the purpose and objectives are clearly established at the outset.
Uninformed and inefficient trade of environmental quality for capital inflows may be due to an incorrect valuation of environmental damages.
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