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C1notorganized,skilled, orabletoworkin asatisfactoryway: 低效率的；能力差的 Existingmethodsofproductionareexpensiveand inefficient.现行的生产方法既费钱效率又低。 I'mhopelesslyinefficientatfixingthings.我永远也不会修理东西。 Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examplesuseless - uselessWe have cleared out carloads of useless junk.
- no useMoney is no use if it's just sitting there.
- serve no purposeSuch warnings serve no purpose other than to scare the public.
- pointlessShe sees cleaning as a pointless exercise since everything is going to get dirty again.
- worthlessThe majority of objects in the exhibition are worthless junk.
See more results » workingin a way thatwastesaresource(= somethingvaluablesuch asfuel,water, ormoney): Agasstoveis a very inefficientdevicebecause some of thehotgasislostto thesurroundings. Currentdesignpracticesareenvironmentallyinefficient. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesUseless and futile - a mug's gameidiom
- adrift
- aimless
- aimlessly
- aimlessness
- airy-fairy
- frivolous
- frivolousness
- fruitless
- fruitlessly
- fruitlessness
- motiveless
- negate
- negation
- no goodidiom
- unfruitful
- unrealistic
- unrealistically
- untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
- unviability
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: C1notorganized,skilled, orabletoworkin asatisfactoryway 低效率的；能力差的Existingmethodsofproductionareexpensiveand inefficient.现行的生产方法既费钱效率又低。 I'mhopelesslyinefficientatfixingthings.我永远也不会修理东西。 inefficient| American Dictionarywastingtime,money,energy, or othervaluablepossessions orqualities: Many oftheirindustriesarehopelesslyinefficient. inefficiency
Shepromisedto endgovernmentinefficiency. inefficiently
He uses histimeinefficiently. inefficient| Business Englishusingresourcessuch astime,materials, orlabourin a way thatwastesthem: There are too manybig, inefficientcompaniesinalmosteverypartof theeconomy. extremely/highly/increasinglyinefficient inefficiently
Governmentsspendmoneyinefficiently and get littlereturnfor it. Examplesofinefficientinefficient Aninefficienttax system could thus have survived if political rigidities prevented a ruler from changing it.From theCambridge English Corpus Ultimately, the destructor provedinefficientand, as its name implies, it left a strong legacy of disposal.From theCambridge English Corpus When punishment was available, they observed relatively more cooperation in an otherwiseinefficientvoting environment.From theCambridge English Corpus But solving the dynamical system is a difficult andinefficientmethod, because it usually requires numerical integrations.From theCambridge English Corpus Designated in the language of business "modernism" as backward, localist, andinefficient, batch firms in time came to resemble that definition.From theCambridge English Corpus Recursion is perceived to be more difficult to understand than loops, and also believed to beinefficient.From theCambridge English Corpus Almost inevitably, monitoring will beinefficientand may become unstructured exercises in data gathering unless the purpose and objectives are clearly established at the outset.From theCambridge English Corpus Uninformed andinefficienttrade of environmental quality for capital inflows may be due to an incorrect valuation of environmental damages.From theCambridge English Corpus Presumably, pruning eliminates unused andinefficientconnections to improve the overall efficiency and specificity of neurotransmission.From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, it was to try to put back on track an administrative machinery considered on the whole asinefficient.From theCambridge English Corpus For example, without further optimization such an implementation is prohibitivelyinefficientin terms of storage consumption when large arrays are used.From theCambridge English Corpus In those days syntax-directed compilers were studied at the research level, but were consideredinefficientfor implementation in the available machines.From theCambridge English Corpus It is concluded that appropriate policy reforms complemented by technical change will increase diversification of the cropping system and reduceinefficientfertilizer use.From theCambridge English Corpus Ten years after the peace accords, the judicial system remained weak,inefficient, antiquated, overly partisan, and subject to corruption.From theCambridge English Corpus Yet rivalry, like war, is costly and thus usually ex-postinefficient.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |