as in unsuccessful
not producing the desired result
inefficient measures to solve the problem of teenage smoking
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Recent Examples of inefficient
Ambitious efforts Amazon has for years been on a mission to crack the multitrillion-dollar U.S. health-care industry, which is notoriously complex and inefficient.
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Ashley Capoot,annie Palmer, CNBC, 13 June 2025
Of course someone is going to come along and say, ‘Democracy is inefficient.
—Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2025
President Donald Trump has criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency as partisan, inefficient and unnecessary.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN Money, 1 June 2025
Yet Apple still plans to support the older, slower and inefficient Intel MacBook Pro models.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
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Ashley Capoot,annie Palmer, CNBC, 13 June 2025
Of course someone is going to come along and say, ‘Democracy is inefficient.
—Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2025
President Donald Trump has criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency as partisan, inefficient and unnecessary.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN Money, 1 June 2025
Yet Apple still plans to support the older, slower and inefficient Intel MacBook Pro models.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for inefficient
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inefficient
Adjective
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Barca even took a legal case against the regulations to a Catalan court but were unsuccessful.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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The family's attempts to halt Oliva's deportation were unsuccessful.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Now county leaders are making a hard push for solutions, mindful that incarceration is often an ineffective response to broader economic and societal challenges.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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If these thermal management systems are ineffective an electric vehicle could be rendered immobile (or worse) due to the battery overheating.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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Beyond that, such dramatic moves could be counterproductive.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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Targeting the employers themselves, some of whom Trump relies on for support, would be counterproductive to his agenda, Reisz said.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
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“Inefficient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inefficient. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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