inefficient

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
    — Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
    — Celery is an inefficient food.
  2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.
    — inefficient workers

词形变化

more inefficient comparative most inefficient superlative inefficients plural

词汇关系

反义词
efficient
衍生词
inefficiently

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English efficient
English inefficient
From in- + efficient.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English efficient
English inefficient
From in- + efficient.
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