Inefficiency Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭnĭ-fĭshən-sē
Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. incompetence
  2. incapability
  3. disorganization
  4. wastefulness
Antonyms:
  1. efficiency

Words Related to Inefficiency

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Inefficiency Sentence Examples

  • The institution had fallen into a state of lamentable inefficiency.

  • It is true that his allies provided him with 10 ships of their own, but the Spanish navy had sunk to abject inefficiency.

  • The concomitants of these have been irresponsibility and inefficiency.

  • Each pound of steam can thus be made to give up some 950 units of heat; while in a good steam engine only about 200 units are utilized in the steam cylinder per pound of steam, and in addition allowance has to be made for mechanical inefficiency.

  • In the absence of such systems, inefficiency creates work and manually intensive work-arounds and rechecks become the norm.

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