Synonyms for Efficient:

• adj.

  •able (adjective)
  • know onions,
  • pre pared,
  • know one onions,
  • smart,
  • know ropes,
  • up speed,
  • more intelligent,
  • up snuff,
  • up it,
  • more talented,
  • savviest,
  • therer,
  • know ones onions,
  • therest,
  • more skilled,
  • savvy,
  • more efficient,
  • pre-pared,
  • know backwards forwards,
  • most efficient.
  •adept, effective (adjective)
  • organized,
  • skilled,
  • decisive,
  • active,
  • adequate,
  • skillful,
  • clever,
  • expert,
  • efficacious,
  • good at,
  • well-organized,
  • businesslike,
  • deft,
  • tough,
  • systematic,
  • familiar with,
  • dynamic,
  • adapted,
  • virtuous,
  • shrewd,
  • talented,
  • ready,
  • practiced,
  • energetic,
  • handy,
  • accomplished,
  • Fitted,
  • masterly,
  • useful,
  • economic,
  • good for,
  • potent,
  • apt,
  • experienced.
  •all (adjective)
  • efficient.
  •capable (adjective)
  • like a one man band,
  • like oneman band,
  • more up,
  • like pistol,
  • most oldtimer,
  • like one-man band,
  • veteran,
  • having know how,
  • having knowhow,
  • most old timer,
  • most dynamite,
  • old timer,
  • more old timer,
  • like a oneman band,
  • more fireball,
  • having goods,
  • more old-timer,
  • more oldtimer,
  • more dynamite,
  • knowing score,
  • like one man band,
  • having right stuff,
  • has what takes,
  • most capable,
  • most up,
  • more suited,
  • on ball,
  • most fireball,
  • most old-timer.
  •competent (adjective)
  • end owed,
  • no slouch,
  • know one stuff,
  • know ones business,
  • being pistol,
  • know ins outs,
  • know business,
  • pertinent,
  • know answers,
  • paid one dues,
  • know ones stuff,
  • end-owed,
  • foolest,
  • know score,
  • paid ones dues,
  • de-cent,
  • paid dues,
  • de cent,
  • know one business.
  •economical (adjective)
  • curmudgeonly,
  • timesaving,
  • on the rims,
  • provident,
  • work-saving,
  • pennypinching,
  • penny-wise,
  • money-saving,
  • unwasteful,
  • niggardly,
  • meager,
  • penurious,
  • pennywise,
  • prudential.
  •effective (adjective)
  • playing hardball,
  • having lead in pencil,
  • powerhouse,
  • most telling.
  •effectual (adjective)
  • de-terminative,
  • most achieving,
  • more achieving,
  • de terminative,
  • most accomplishing,
  • most fulfilling,
  • licit,
  • most effecting,
  • more fulfilling,
  • more effecting,
  • more accomplishing.
  •expedient (adjective)
  • commodious,
  • advantageous,
  • accommodating,
  • timely,
  • suitable,
  • expedient,
  • desirable,
  • fit,
  • convenient,
  • opportune.
  •expeditious (adjective)
  • fleet,
  • more diligent.
  •facile (adjective)
  • fluent,
  • effortless,
  • adroit,
  • facile,
  • uncomplicated,
  • dexterous,
  • smooth,
  • simple,
  • easy.
  •forcible (adjective)
  • forcible,
  • mightiest,
  • puissant.
  •good (adjective)
  • first rate,
  • re liablest,
  • firstrate,
  • re-liable,
  • re-liablest,
  • re liabler,
  • re-liabler.
  •infallible (adjective)
  • Undeceivable,
  • inerrant,
  • apodictic,
  • surefire,
  • inerrable.
  •live (adjective)
  • un settled,
  • un-settled.
  •methodic (adjective)
  • meth odic,
  • meth-odic.
  •methodical (adjective)
  • most grooved,
  • Systematical,
  • grooved,
  • more grooved,
  • Methodic.
  •methodical/methodic (adjective)
  • more methodized,
  • more structured,
  • most wellregulated,
  • most setup,
  • more disciplined,
  • more set up,
  • more well-regulated,
  • well regulated,
  • in groove,
  • most disciplined,
  • most structured,
  • more set-up,
  • de liberate,
  • most set-up,
  • wellregulated,
  • most methodic,
  • most well regulated,
  • more setup,
  • most well-regulated,
  • most methodized,
  • more methodic,
  • de-liberate,
  • by book,
  • more wellregulated,
  • more well regulated,
  • most set up.
  •neat (adjective)
  • more well judged,
  • well-judged,
  • neater,
  • welljudged,
  • well judged,
  • most well judged,
  • more welljudged,
  • most well-judged,
  • more well-judged,
  • most welljudged.
  •no-nonsense (adjective)
  • no nonsense,
  • nononsense.
  •operative (adjective)
  • re levant,
  • re-levant.
  •ordered (adjective)
  • consistent,
  • symmetrical,
  • normal,
  • balanced,
  • steady,
  • uniform,
  • arranged,
  • tight,
  • stable,
  • ordered,
  • harmonious.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • neat,
  • all the way,
  • VETER,
  • by numbers,
  • knowing the score,
  • both feet on the ground,
  • INDEPTH,
  • serviceable,
  • qualified,
  • oldtimer,
  • live,
  • all together,
  • no-nonsense,
  • disciplined,
  • effectual,
  • vet,
  • infallible,
  • well-ordered,
  • able,
  • in force,
  • there,
  • by the book,
  • persuasive,
  • economical,
  • being a pistol,
  • know the answers,
  • vigorous,
  • know one's business,
  • equal to,
  • know stuff,
  • having the goods,
  • unanswerable,
  • having the right stuff,
  • matter of fact,
  • has what it takes,
  • fireball,
  • well-regulated,
  • in depth,
  • know one's onions,
  • on the dot,
  • up to snuff,
  • knowing one's stuff,
  • know one's stuff,
  • on the button,
  • good,
  • methodical,
  • up to speed,
  • know backwards and forwards,
  • practical,
  • like a pistol,
  • effective,
  • self-sufficient,
  • pragmatic,
  • in action,
  • phenom,
  • competent,
  • professional,
  • doable,
  • in operation,
  • set-up,
  • wideawake,
  • know the score,
  • soup to nuts,
  • workaday,
  • well-qualified,
  • utilitarian,
  • whole-hog,
  • structured,
  • assistive,
  • worldly wise,
  • unidealistic,
  • paid one's dues,
  • regular,
  • out and out,
  • all around,
  • slam bang,
  • capable,
  • in a groove,
  • like a one-man band,
  • hard-wearing,
  • hardboiled,
  • proficient,
  • hardwearing,
  • cut and dried,
  • fooler,
  • operative,
  • know ins and outs,
  • Clocklike,
  • having know-how,
  • all-embracing,
  • responsible,
  • blow by blow,
  • up to it,
  • expeditious.
  •persuasive (adjective)
  • inducing,
  • Convictive,
  • Inveigling.
  •practical (adjective)
  • doablest,
  • most unidealistic,
  • both feet on ground,
  • Worldlywise,
  • hard boiled,
  • un-idealistic,
  • more utile,
  • un romantic,
  • un idealistic,
  • vetest,
  • doabler,
  • most workaday,
  • both feet the ground,
  • nuts bolts,
  • un-romantic,
  • utile,
  • more unidealistic,
  • most utile,
  • both feet ground,
  • more workaday.
  •pragmatic (adjective)
  • hardheaded.
  •professional (adjective)
  • most wellqualified,
  • more well qualified,
  • most crackerjack,
  • more wellqualified,
  • knowing one stuff,
  • most well qualified,
  • knowing ones stuff,
  • wellqualified,
  • most well-qualified,
  • well qualified,
  • more crackerjack,
  • more well-qualified,
  • knowing stuff.
  •proficient (adjective)
  • more phenom,
  • more exercised,
  • more drilled,
  • whizest,
  • whizer,
  • most phenom,
  • most exercised,
  • on beam,
  • most drilled,
  • on the beam.
  •prompt (adjective)
  • on button,
  • instantaneous,
  • un hesitating,
  • un-hesitating,
  • on dot,
  • wide awake.
  •qualified (adjective)
  • warhorse,
  • war-horse,
  • war horse.
  •regular (adjective)
  • in order.
  •responsible (adjective)
  • self reliant,
  • selfreliant.
  •self-sufficient (adjective)
  • self-sufficing,
  • on one's own,
  • doing one's own thing,
  • out for number one,
  • Self-dependent,
  • on own,
  • self-sustaining,
  • self-sustained,
  • self-supported.
  •serviceable (adjective)
  • most hard wearing,
  • more assistive,
  • more hardwearing,
  • more hard-wearing,
  • hard wearing,
  • most aiding,
  • in valuable,
  • most hardwearing,
  • most assistive,
  • most hard-wearing,
  • more aiding,
  • more hard wearing,
  • in-valuable.
  •skillful (adjective)
  • artful,
  • genius,
  • nimble,
  • cunning,
  • adept,
  • ambidextrous,
  • crack,
  • versatile,
  • crafty,
  • agile,
  • masterful,
  • Sure-footed.
  •systematic (adjective)
  • more well-ordered,
  • more well ordered,
  • more systematized,
  • wellordered,
  • well ordered,
  • most well ordered,
  • most systematized,
  • most well-ordered,
  • more wellordered,
  • most wellordered.
  •thorough/thoroughgoing (adjective)
  • from z,
  • most slam bang,
  • de tailed,
  • more particularized,
  • more all-embracing,
  • most all embracing,
  • most whole-hog,
  • all out,
  • all way,
  • more thorough,
  • fulldress,
  • more whole hog,
  • more slam-bang,
  • more whole-hog,
  • most all-embracing,
  • most whole hog,
  • allout,
  • all embracing,
  • most thorough,
  • more slambang,
  • allinclusive,
  • from to z,
  • allembracing,
  • more all embracing,
  • more clocklike,
  • slambang,
  • all inclusive,
  • more wholehog,
  • most wholehog,
  • most allembracing,
  • in tensive,
  • most slambang,
  • more thoroughgoing,
  • de-tailed,
  • Slam-bang,
  • wholehog,
  • in-tensive,
  • most clocklike,
  • more slam bang,
  • most particularized,
  • most slam-bang,
  • from a z,
  • soup nuts.
  •thoroughpaced (adjective)
  • Thoroughpaced.
  •valid (adjective)
  • most attested,
  • more attested,
  • un adulterated,
  • un-adulterated,
  • un corrupted,
  • most unanswerable,
  • more unanswerable,
  • un-answerable,
  • wellfounded,
  • well grounded,
  • un-corrupted,
  • more proven,
  • more valid,
  • wellgrounded,
  • most proven,
  • un answerable.
  •vigorous (adjective)
  • take-charge,
  • strong as an ox,
  • take over,
  • strong as ox,
  • take charge,
  • hard-driving,
  • ball of fire,
  • take-over,
  • red-blooded.
  •virtuous (adjective)
  • high-principled,
  • clean-living,
  • in the clear,
  • on up and up,
  • moralistic,
  • without reproach.

• n.

  •
  • thrifty,
  • suited,
  • conducive,
  • fitting,
  • ineffectual,
  • profitable,
  • saving,
  • high-powered.
  •
  • thrive.
  •cost-effective (noun)
  • cost-effective.
  •cost-efficient (noun)
  • cost-efficient.
  •efficient (noun)
  • prompt,
  • underspent,
  • streamlined,
  • high-octane.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • ability,
  • property,
  • means.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • well-oiled,
  • bookish,
  • nifty,
  • invaluable,
  • well-worn,
  • tireless,
  • on-stream,
  • hard-working,
  • usefully,
  • worthwhile,
  • proven,
  • functional,
  • time-saving,
  • functionally,
  • well-run,
  • industrious,
  • constructive.
  •
  • helpful,
  • handily,
  • meaningful,
  • operable,
  • online,
  • operational,
  • valuable,
  • productive,
  • purposeful,
  • tailored,
  • studious,
  • effectively,
  • wonky,
  • general-purpose,
  • Overworked.
  •
  • working,
  • sweetly,
  • powerful,
  • tailor-made,
  • priceless.
  •
  • deadly.
  •
  • robust,
  • worth.
  •
  • strong.
  •genuine
  • valid.

Paraphrases for Efficient:

• Equivalence

  • Coordinating conjunction
    effective.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    effective.
  • Adjective
    effective, efficacious, effectual.
  • Proper noun, singular
    effective.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    effective, efficacious.
  • Adverb
    effective.
  • Verb, past tense
    effective.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    effective.
  • Verb, base form
    effective.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    cost-efficient, fuel-efficient, high-efficiency, efficiently, well-performing, power-efficient, eco-efficient, energy-efficiency.
  • Proper noun, singular
    efficiently.
  • Adverb
    efficiently.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    convenient, potent, expedient, workable, cost-effectively, fruitful, optimal, high-performing, high-yielding, sufficient, high-performance, beneficial, energy-saving, satisfactory, frugal, sensible, energy-conscious, proper, expeditious, helpful, constructive, responsive, practical, robust, strong, smooth, intelligent, costeffective, optimum, feasible, suitable, diligent, transparent, cost-efficiently, competitive, speedy, lucrative, meaningful, consistent.
  • Noun, plural
    servants, successes, teeth, efficiency, efficiencies.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    meaningful.
  • Verb, past tense
    Worked.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    benefits, results, remains.

• Other Related

  • Determiner
    effective, efficiency.
  • Adjective
    ineffective, efficiency, profitable, streamlined, viable, proficient, businesslike, economical, thrifty, functional, functioning, operational, intensive.
  • Proper noun, singular
    efficiency, efficiencies.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    efficiency, functioning.
  • Interjection
    effective.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    effective.
  • Verb, base form
    efficiency.

Antonyms for Efficient:

• adj.

  • adept, effective
    inactive, idle, inefficient, inept, worthless, ineffective, weak, lazy, helpless, useless, impotent, unskillful, powerless, unskilled, delicate, incapable, fragile, unable, sluggish, inadequate, incompetent.
  • Other antonyms:
    hollow, inoperative, unfruitful, inexpert, abortive, empty, vain, unqualified, inexperienced, bootless, pointless, unseasoned.

Homophones for Efficient:

• effacement, evacuant.