- (a.) Incapable of or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
- (a.) Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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