Inefficient - English meaning

adjective

Done in an unskilful or inept way.

Usage examples:

Her amateurish interviewing technique

adjective

Performed without much skill

Usage examples:

The movie drags along, made even worse by amateurish acting.

adjective

Having no skill, or showing no skill

Usage examples:

Their website looks amateurish.

adjective

Not properly planned and controlled.

Usage examples:

The campaign was hopelessly disorganized

verb

Disrupt the systematic order or functioning of.

adjective

Badly planned and lacking order

Usage examples:

According to one officer, things are so disorganized that no one knows who is where.

adjective

Unable to do or achieve (something).

Usage examples:

Wilson blushed and was incapable of speech

adjective

Unable to do something

Usage examples:

She’s incapable of hurting a fly.

adjective

Not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully.

Usage examples:

A forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant

noun

An incompetent person.

Usage examples:

The tanker captain was a known incompetent

adjective

Lacking the skills or knowledge to do a job or perform an action correctly or to a satisfactory standard

Usage examples:

Cowden was incompetent and incapable of administering the duties of secretary of the association., …

adjective

Not producing any significant or desired effect.

Usage examples:

The legal sanctions against oil spills are virtually ineffective

adjective

Not producing the results that are wanted; not effective

Usage examples:

Those pills were ineffective – i still have a headache.

adjective

Not producing the effects or results that are wanted

Usage examples:

They made an ineffective attempt to get the rules changed., prove ineffective the army has proved i…

adjective

Not producing any significant or desired effect.

Usage examples:

An ineffectual campaign

adjective

Not able to produce good results

Usage examples:

An ineffectual teacher

adjective

Not skilled at achieving, or not able to produce, good results

Usage examples:

An ineffectual leader, ineffectual at the teachers were ineffectual at maintaining discipline.

adjective

Having or showing no skill; clumsy.

Usage examples:

The referee's inept handling of the match

adjective

Not skilled or effective

Usage examples:

He was always pretty inept at sports., political/social/economic ineptitude

adjective

Having or showing a lack of skill or knowledge.

Usage examples:

An inexpert transcription from the real music

adjective

Having little skill

Usage examples:

She had made an inexpert attempt to repair the car.

adjective

Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.

Usage examples:

Lax security arrangements at the airport

noun

Lacrosse.

Usage examples:

I wore pads and a helmet whenever i played lax

adjective

Lacking care, attention, or control; not severe or strong enough

Usage examples:

Security at the airport seemed lax., laxity in enforcing safety regulations can cost lives.

adjective

Failing to take proper care over something.

Usage examples:

The council had been negligent in its supervision of the children in care

adjective

Failing to be careful enough or to give enough attention to your responsibilities, esp. when this results in harm or loss to others

Usage examples:

She charged her landlord with negligence for not repairing leaks that ruined her rugs.

adjective

Not giving enough care or attention to someone or something that you are responsible for

Usage examples:

It was necessary to prove that the manager had been negligent., be negligent in (doing) sth the cou…

adjective

Lacking in discipline; uncontrolled in behaviour or manner.

Usage examples:

Undisciplined soldiers

adjective

Not behaving in a very controlled or organized way

Usage examples:

The coach should be embarrassed to see the team play in such an undisciplined manner., an undiscipl…

adjective

(of a thing) not of the necessary quality or standard to meet a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

The land is unfit for food crops

verb

Make (something or someone) unsuitable; disqualify.

Usage examples:

They say that we are trying to give poor children tastes which will only unfit them for a life of h…

adjective

Lacking the qualities needed or expected for something; not suitable

Usage examples:

The court ruled that she was an unfit mother and ordered that the child be placed in a foster home.

adjective

Not ready or able to deal with something.

Usage examples:

She was totally unprepared for what happened next

adjective

Not ready

Usage examples:

He was completely/totally unprepared for what he saw.

adjective

Not having or showing skill.

Usage examples:

Though kind and willing, she was unskilful

adjective

Not good at doing something, or lacking skills generally

Usage examples:

Unfortunately, they made a couple of unskilful moves that played directly into the hands of their o…

adjective

Not having or requiring special skill or training.

Usage examples:

Unskilled manual workers

adjective

(of people) without any particular work skills, or (of work) not needing any particular skills

Usage examples:

Unskilled workers may lose their jobs.

adjective

Used to describe people who have no particular work skills

Usage examples:

Unskilled employees/labourers/workers businesses such as restaurants are dependent on lower-paid, u…

adjective

Not fitting or appropriate.

Usage examples:

The display is unsuitable for young children

adjective

Not right for a particular person, situation, or occasion

Usage examples:

Parts of this movie may be unsuitable for children.