Definition for Inefficiency:

• The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.

Synonyms for Inefficiency:

• n.

  •
  • drawback,
  • limitation,
  • minus,
  • handicap,
  • snag,
  • price,
  • downside,
  • loss,
  • disadvantage.
  •incompetence (noun)
  • wastefulness,
  • carelessness,
  • incapability,
  • inability,
  • disorganization.
  •inexpedience (noun)
  • impropriety,
  • unfitness,
  • ineptness,
  • inconvenience,
  • delinquency,
  • unsuitability,
  • untimeliness,
  • inexpedience.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inability.
  •uselessness
  • worthlessness.
  •Other relevant words:
  • failure,
  • inefficacy,
  • lost trouble,
  • imperfection,
  • bankruptcy,
  • breakdown,
  • ungainliness,
  • impotency,
  • Unproficiency,
  • insufficiency,
  • carelessness,
  • infancy,
  • gaucherie,
  • inferiority,
  • drawback,
  • unaptness,
  • Indexterity,
  • limitation,
  • mediocrity,
  • faultiness,
  • Indocility,
  • inefficiencies,
  • unproductiveness,
  • inattentiveness,
  • deficiency,
  • inadequacy,
  • inaptitude,
  • penetration,
  • insight,
  • worthlessness,
  • defect,
  • disablement,
  • clumsiness,
  • disadvantage,
  • maladjustment,
  • Pedestrianism,
  • price,
  • impotence,
  • disqualification,
  • handicap,
  • loss,
  • disorganization,
  • unskillfulness,
  • labor in vain,
  • invalidity,
  • impuissance,
  • inefficaciousness,
  • unproductivity,
  • unfruitfulness,
  • disability,
  • wastefulness,
  • futility,
  • inutility,
  • disservice,
  • inaptness,
  • intelligence,
  • incompetence,
  • uncleverness,
  • Rustiness,
  • downside,
  • incompetency,
  • thoughtlessness,
  • uselessness,
  • imbecility,
  • incapability,
  • ineffectualness,
  • incapacity,
  • snag,
  • inability,
  • Wardship,
  • unsuitableness,
  • ineffectiveness,
  • fruitlessness,
  • minority,
  • Incapacitation,
  • maladroitness,
  • awkwardness,
  • ineptitude,
  • ineffectuality,
  • Unintelligence,
  • inadequateness,
  • minus,
  • decline.

Antonyms for Inefficiency:

• n.

  • cognition
    efficiency.
  • Other antonyms:
    efficiency.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    efficient.