efficient

[ih-fish-uhnt] / ɪˈfɪʃ ənt /

ADJECTIVE

capable, effective

Synonyms

STRONGEST

able active adept adequate capable competent decisive dynamic economical effective energetic potent powerful productive profitable skilled skillful tough useful valuable

WEAK

accomplished adapted apt businesslike clever conducive deft economic effectual efficacious equal to experienced expert familiar with fitted good at good for handy masterly organized practiced proficient qualified ready saving shrewd systematic talented virtuous well-organized

Antonyms

STRONGEST

delicate fragile idle impotent inactive inadequate incapable incompetent ineffective inept lazy sluggish unable unskilled unskillful useless weak worthless

WEAK

helpless inefficient powerless

Usage

What are other ways to say efficient? The adjective efficient, when applied to a person or a thing, implies the skillful use of energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort: efficient methods; an efficient manager. Effective is applied to a person or a thing that has the power to, or which actually does, produce an effect: an effective boss, remedy, speech. Effectual is used especially of that which produces the effect desired or intended, or a decisive result: An effectual bombardment silenced the enemy. Efficacious suggests the capability of achieving a certain end: an efficacious plan, medicine.

Example Sentences

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Forty years ago, “RoboCop” imagined a world in which a police officer could be recast as a highly efficient, if inhuman, crime-fighting cyborg.

From Salon

Cordano said the talks needed a rejigged and more efficient way of working, calling for "flexibility and pragmatism".

From Barron's

The executives he pitched often talked about wanting to make their corporate workforces more efficient.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Over even short distances, transmitting data with photons is three times as efficient as electrons,” says Wendell Weeks, Corning’s chief executive since 2005, who came from the fiber-optic division.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the same time, AI has the potential to make businesses more efficient.

From Barron's

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