Usually means: Not achieving maximum productivity, wasteful.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word inefficient:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. inefficient: Merriam-Webster
  2. inefficient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inefficient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inefficient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inefficient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inefficient, inefficient: Wordnik
  7. inefficient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inefficient: Wiktionary
  9. inefficient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inefficient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inefficient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inefficient, inefficient: Dictionary.com
  13. inefficient: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inefficient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inefficient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inefficient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inefficient: Rhymezone
  18. inefficient, inefficint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inefficient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inefficient: FreeDictionary.org
  21. inefficient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inefficient: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. inefficient: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inefficient: Legal dictionary

(Note: See inefficiently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious
adjective:  Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing
noun:  A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.

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