inefficientadjective
uk/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/C1 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.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- ornamental
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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inefficiently
adverb uk/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt.li/us/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt.li/
The hotel is inefficiently run.
inefficiency
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/us/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
They were accused of gross inefficiency in their handling of the case.