inefficient

Adjective

 * 1) Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious
 * Celery is an inefficient food.
 * 1) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing
 * Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
 * Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
 * Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
 * Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: neefektivní
 * Finnish: tehoton
 * French:
 * Irish: neamhéifeachtúil
 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish: niewydajny, niewydolny
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish: ineficiente, ineficaz
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, aikaansaamaton
 * Ido:
 * Italian: a scartamento ridotto
 * Swedish: ,


 * German:
 * Mandarin: (wú jié guǒ)

Noun

 * 1) A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
 * 2) * 1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)
 * Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck