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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Scaling intelligence in one dimension is a much more efficient engineering task than trying to build a multimodal model with capabilities across writing, coding and image generation.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 19, 2026

That avoids the ruinous problem of cracked pipes, but the system is also more efficient at creating ice.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

As energy demand continues to rise, researchers are searching for ways to make electronics far more efficient.

From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026

According to minister Fernandez, "around 40 percent of the water used in agriculture could be saved" through public investment in infrastructure and more efficient irrigation methods.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

A single CFC molecule is about ten thousand times more efficient at exacerbating greenhouse effects than a molecule of carbon dioxide–and carbon dioxide is of course no slouch itself as a greenhouse gas.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson