What are the opposite words for inefficient?
Efficiency is a critical aspect of modern life. It is the quality of being productive, effective, and proficient at something. Inefficient, therefore, is the opposite of being productive, effective, or proficient. There are several antonyms that can be used for the term inefficient, including productive, profitable, effective, successful, and efficient. Productive is being able to achieve a significant amount of work with less effort, while efficient is completing a job with less time, money, and energy. Effective is getting the job done with the desired result. In contrast, unsuccessful is failing to achieve the desired outcome, while unprofitable is a failed attempt to recover investments.
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- skillful
- feeble
- qualified
- economical
- effective
- methodical
- businesslike
- competent
- efficacious
- helpless
- lame
- modernized
- practical
- proficient
- self-sufficient
- unfit
- able
- capable
- efficient
- incompetent
- inefficient
- inept
- organized
- professional
- realistic
- responsible
- sensible
- streamlined
- unprofessional
- all
- ineffective/ineffectual
- efficient, professional
- unable
- able to perform
- conservative with resources; careful
- productive, persuasive
- efficient, productive
- adept, effective
- realistic, useful
- skilled, trained
- able, skilled
- able, skillful
- sensible, matter-of-fact
- trustworthy, mature
- able to take care of oneself
- able, talented
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- skillful
- feeble
- qualified
-
economical
- curmudgeonly,
- niggardly,
- penny-wise,
- prudential,
- timesaving,
- time-saving,
- pennywise,
- cost effective,
- costeffective,
- unwasteful,
- money saving,
- money-saving,
- moneysaving,
- more curmudgeonly,
- more money saving,
- more money-saving,
- more penny wise,
- more penny-wise,
- more pennywise,
- more prudential,
- more scrimping,
- more skimping,
- more time saving,
- more time-saving,
- more timesaving,
- more unwasteful,
- more work saving,
- most money saving,
- most money-saving,
- most moneysaving,
- most niggardly,
- most penny wise,
- most penny-wise,
- most prudential,
- most scrimping,
- most time saving,
- most time-saving,
- most timesaving,
- most unwasteful,
- most work saving,
- most work-saving,
- on rims,
- on the rims,
- penny wise,
- pennypinching,
- time saving,
- un wasteful,
- un-wasteful,
- work-saving,
- worksaving.
- effective
-
methodical
- all together,
- grooved,
- structured,
- de liberate,
- de-liberate,
- ex act,
- ex-act,
- meth odic,
- meth-odic,
- more grooved,
- more methodized,
- more well-regulated,
- more wellregulated,
- most grooved,
- most methodized,
- most structured,
- most well regulated,
- most well-regulated,
- most wellregulated,
- well regulated,
- well-regulated,
- wellregulated.
-
businesslike
- disciplined,
- well-ordered,
- workaday,
- matter of fact,
- matter-of-fact,
- in tent,
- in-tent,
- more careful,
- more diligent,
- more disciplined,
- more serious,
- more thorough,
- more well ordered,
- more well-ordered,
- more wellordered,
- more workaday,
- most disciplined,
- most thorough,
- most well ordered,
- most well-ordered,
- most wellordered,
- most workaday,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- well ordered,
- wellordered.
-
competent
- know the score,
- pertinent,
- all around,
- being a pistol,
- being pistol,
- de cent,
- de-cent,
- end owed,
- end-owed,
- fooler,
- foolest,
- know answers,
- know business,
- know ins and outs,
- know ins outs,
- know one business,
- know one stuff,
- know one's business,
- know one's stuff,
- know ones business,
- know ones stuff,
- know ropes,
- know score,
- know stuff,
- know the answers,
- most capable,
- most dynamite,
- no slouch,
- paid dues,
- paid one dues,
- paid one's dues,
- paid ones dues,
- therer,
- up snuff.
- efficacious
- helpless
- lame
- modernized
-
practical
- doable,
- in operation,
- vet,
- Worldlywise,
- VETER,
- hardboiled,
- unidealistic,
- in action,
- both feet ground,
- both feet on ground,
- both feet on the ground,
- both feet the ground,
- doablest,
- hard boiled,
- more unidealistic,
- more utile,
- most unidealistic,
- most utile,
- nuts bolts,
- un idealistic,
- un romantic,
- un-idealistic,
- un-romantic,
- vetest,
- worldly wise.
- proficient
-
self-sufficient
- on one's own,
- self-sufficing,
- self-sustained,
- self-sustaining,
- Self-dependent,
- doing one own thing,
- doing one thing,
- doing one's own thing,
- doing one's thing,
- doing ones own thing,
- doing ones thing,
- doing own thing,
- doing thing,
- in dependent,
- in dividual,
- in-dependent,
- in-dividual,
- more self dependent,
- more self sufficing,
- more self supported,
- more self sustained,
- more self sustaining,
- more self-dependent,
- more self-sufficing,
- more self-supported,
- more self-sustained,
- more self-sustaining,
- more selfdependent,
- more selfsufficing,
- more selfsupported,
- more selfsustained,
- more selfsustaining,
- more unit,
- most self sufficing,
- most self supported,
- most self sustaining,
- most self-dependent,
- most self-sufficing,
- most self-supported,
- most self-sustained,
- most self-sustaining,
- most selfdependent,
- most selfsupported,
- most unit,
- on one own,
- on ones own,
- on own,
- out for number one,
- self dependent,
- self sufficient,
- self sufficing,
- self supported,
- self supporting,
- self sustaining,
- selfconfident,
- selfdependent,
- selfsufficient,
- selfsufficing,
- selfsupported,
- selfsupporting,
- selfsustaining.
- unfit
- able
-
capable
- fireball,
- oldtimer,
- there,
- knowing the score,
- has what it takes,
- has what takes,
- having goods,
- having know how,
- having know-how,
- having knowhow,
- having right stuff,
- having the goods,
- having the right stuff,
- knowing score,
- like a one man band,
- like a one-man band,
- like a oneman band,
- like a pistol,
- like one man band,
- like one-man band,
- like oneman band,
- like pistol,
- more dynamite,
- more fireball,
- more old timer,
- more old-timer,
- more oldtimer,
- more up,
- most fireball,
- most old timer,
- most old-timer,
- most oldtimer,
- most up,
- old timer,
- therest,
- up it,
- up speed,
- up to it,
- up to snuff,
- up to speed.
- efficient
- incompetent
- inefficient
- inept
- organized
- professional
- realistic
- responsible
- sensible
- streamlined
- unprofessional
- all
- ineffective/ineffectual
- efficient, professional
- unable
- able to perform
- conservative with resources; careful
- productive, persuasive
- efficient, productive
- adept, effective
- realistic, useful
- skilled, trained
- able, skilled
- able, skillful
- sensible, matter-of-fact
- trustworthy, mature
- able to take care of oneself
- able, talented
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
unweaved
- Antonyms:
- put together, twist, tangle.
