Adjective

(en adjective)

Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.

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Of a job: not requiring skill or training.

Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.

Celery is an inefficient food.

Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.

Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.