Inefficient vs Unusual - What's the difference?
inefficient | unusual |
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.
Unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.
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Not usual.
As adjectives the difference between inefficient and unusual
is that inefficient is inefficient while unusual is unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.inefficient
English
(wikipedia inefficient)Adjective
(en adjective)- Celery is an inefficient food.
- Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
