Synonym: incapable, incompetent, inept, unable, unfit, unskillful. Antonym: efficient. Similar words: inefficiency, efficient, efficiency, sufficient, sufficiently, insufficient, sufficiency, proficiency. Meaning: [‚ɪnɪ'fɪʃnt] adj. 1. not producing desired results; wasteful 2. lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate.
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151. "We know that small stock caps are inefficient and volatile, but if you are a long-term investor looking to put a small cap stock in a global context they are valuable," said Mattiko.
152. They say trying to supply every child with a laptop, even at the current price of one hundred sixty dollars, is costly and inefficient.
153. Hoarding so much is inefficient: companies reduce their return on equity by having too little debt.
154. We just have an outrageously bloated and inefficient system of socialized medicine, because there are hospitals in America where anyone can go and get treatment.
155. This is a very inefficient way of running and a major cause of shin splints and heel pain.
156. Traditional analog filter is imprecise and inefficient, The optimal parameters of the filters can be obtained by introducing the PSO algorithm.
157. Unstructured P2P systems are inefficient but more popular. From various perspectives, our work focuses on how to improve retrieval efficiency of unstructured P2P file-sharing systems.
158. First, it forces you to hunch over, an inefficient running form that can lead to neck, shoulder, and back pain.
159. However, when developing traditional industrial parks, some problems also arise, such as lack of originality, imcomplete industrial chain, inefficient share-out and cooperation system, etc.
160. Because of the long period of frist penetration against that short phase of agentia residual effect, chemical control is inefficient.
161. In a completely controlled economy, as China's used to be, government leaders might have made economically inefficient decisions, but their authority wasn't disputed.
162. Most asset rearrangement of quoted companies do not advance optimum distribution of social resources. The cause of inefficient asset rearrangement is the defect of security market system.
163. Generally, the minute and complicated instrument calibration procedure and inefficient management give rise to frequent problems in calibration accuracy.
164. For molecular-scale motors, simple surface catalysis as demonstrated in our nanorods may also be too inefficient to counter Brownian motion, whether or not the robot's motion is constrained.
165. The existing dynamic memory management methods are inefficient and have high cost of time.
166. Without enough sea ice, polar bears would be forced onto land, but they are inefficient hunters once they get out of the water and ice,(www.Sentencedict.com) the researchers said.
167. For large numbers, though hash mark numeration system is too inefficient.
168. Today when world industry enters in the age of multi-product, small batch and rapid delivery production, traditional IE gradually becomes less applicable and inefficient.
169. In rough cut of NC milling of helicoid, there are many defects when the generic programming means, for example, longer cutting time, inefficient , exigent tools are used.
170. "It seemed fundamentally inefficient," Bharat told Mediashift, a Publish Broadcasting Service.
171. Adapting current software to older computers is inefficient and time consuming.
172. The code for MAX-HEAPIFY is quite efficient in terms of constant factors, except possibly for the recursive call in line 10, which might cause some compilers to produce inefficient code.
173. The case for normalisation is that low rates encourage bubbles and reward inefficient firms.
174. But the computational effort of feature similarity is very large, sequential scanning is inefficient.
175. No one doubts that this is both morally vexing and economically inefficient.
176. "Human reproduction is surprisingly inefficient and quite complex, " said Dr. Alicia Stanton, an OB-GYN based in Glastonbury, Conn.
177. The grave problems of public hygiene are connected with the inefficient sewage system of the city.
178. This kind of method is inaccurate, inefficient and lacks of repetition.
179. This inefficient method may have worked passably well for the first 25 years of the digital age, but it's becoming untenable as the pile of data mounts.
180. For large numbers, though, the " hash mark " numeration system is too inefficient.
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