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Costing or spending too much; wasteful
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- Costing or spending too much; wasteful
- Exceeding reasonable bounds:
- Extremely abundant; profuse:
Rash; incautious.
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- Rash; incautious.
- Failing to provide for the future; lacking foresight, thrift, etc.
- Not providing for the future; thriftless.
Easily changed or influenced; weak; lax
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- Easily changed or influenced; weak; lax
- Characterized by little work, trade, or business; not busy or active; dull
- Flowing or blowing with little speed:
Lacking order or organization; confused; chaotic.
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- Lacking order or organization; confused; chaotic.
Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power:
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- Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power:
- Not capable
- Unable to perform adequately; incompetent:
(Economics) Adding nothing to exchangeable value.
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- (Economics) Adding nothing to exchangeable value.
- Not productive; useless; fruitless.
- Not productive; idle.
Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
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- Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
- Below the required standard; unqualified:
- (Biology) Unable to survive or produce viable offspring in a particular environment.
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Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power:
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- Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power:
- Not capable
- Unable to perform adequately; incompetent:
(Law) Not legally qualified, as testimony that does not meet the standards for admissibility or a juror whose personal interest in the outcome of the case does not allow him or her to serve.
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- (Law) Not legally qualified, as testimony that does not meet the standards for admissibility or a juror whose personal interest in the outcome of the case does not allow him or her to serve.
- Without adequate ability, knowledge, fitness, etc.; failing to meet requirements; incapable; unskillful
- Lacking qualities necessary for effective conduct or action:
Not suitable to the purpose; unfit
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- Not suitable to the purpose; unfit
- Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
- Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
Not expert; unskilled.
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- Not expert; unskilled.
Exhibiting a lack of skill; inexpert:
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- Exhibiting a lack of skill; inexpert:
- Requiring no training or skill:
- Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.
Not skillful; having little or no skill or dexterity; awkward
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- Not skillful; having little or no skill or dexterity; awkward
- (Obsolete) Ignorant.
- Unskilled; inexpert.
Lacking in ability; incompetent or inadequate
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- Lacking in ability; incompetent or inadequate
- Not effective; not producing the desired effect; ineffectual
- Not producing an intended effect; ineffectual:
Not producing the desired effect:
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- Not producing the desired effect:
- Not effectual; not producing or not able to produce the desired effect
- Lacking forcefulness or effectiveness; inadequate or incompetent:
Incapable of having the intended consequence.
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- Incapable of having the intended consequence.
- Not efficacious; unable to produce the desired effect
- Not capable of producing a desired effect or result; ineffective.
Having no use; unserviceable; worthless
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- Having no use; unserviceable; worthless
- (Pejorative, of a person) good-for-nothing; not dependable.
- Incapable of acting or functioning effectively; ineffectual or inept:
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Find another word for inefficient. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inefficient, like: extravagant, improvident, slack, disorganized, incapable, unproductive, unfit, careless, wasteful, incompetent and ineffective.
