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.

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This unique ability makes them extremely valuable for technologies such as efficient power transmission, energy storage, magnetic levitation systems, and quantum computers.

From Science Daily

With these insights, AI agents could align workflows around each person’s natural rhythm, creating high-impact, efficient collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the long term, the stock market is efficient.

From Barron's

Taken together, the findings suggest that making mitochondria more energy efficient may help delay or reduce common problems linked to aging.

From Science Daily

Buffett is also living proof that “one could prosper by uncovering market inefficiencies,” pushing back in the 1960s and 1970s on the idea that in efficient markets, stock prices quickly absorb new information, said Klarman.

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