adjadj.allbeing effective without wasting time or effort or expenseExamples:- an efficient production manager
- efficient engines save gas
Antonyms:inefficient
Derivationally Related Form:efficiency
Inherited Hypernyms:efficient
Similar to:businesslike cost-effective cost-efficient economic economical expeditious high-octane streamlined
See also:competent effective effectual efficacious
adj satadj.allable to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectivelySynset:effective
Examples:- people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw
- effective personnel
- an efficient secretary
- the efficient cause of the revolution
Antonyms:incompetent
Derivationally Related Form:effectivenesseffectivityeffect
Inherited Hypernyms:effective
Similar to:competent