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more efficient

ADJECTIVE

adept, effective

Synonyms

STRONGEST

able active adequate capable competent decisive dynamic economical 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

Example Sentences

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Global energy markets are much more efficient than they were some six years ago, he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Officials describe the update as a modernization effort intended to streamline outdated or redundant classifications and create a more efficient system for supporting service members’ religious needs.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

When it does, more efficient players will be positioned to take share.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

"Firms won market share not by being more efficient or more innovative but by being more heavily subsidised."

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

To his way of thinking, it would have been more efficient.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el