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

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more efficient

This revolutionary tech will make your competitors more efficient, so you’ll need it simply to keep up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Neanderthal chitinase genes appear to have supported more efficient insect digestion, a pattern also detected in the only Denisovan specimen included in the analysis.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

While some books are scanned for various purposes without losing their spines, so-called destructive scanning is considered more efficient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Caerphilly Council said its transformation programme included the use of technology and AI to make services more efficient, while Essex County Council said it was exploring further savings through "technology and digitisation" and redesigning services.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

It assumes the existence of a nuclear fusion reactor— something much safer as well as more efficient than existing fission power plants.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan