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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
operating or performing in an effective and competent manner, with little waste of effort or resources.
The restaurant established an efficient way to train new employees.Google made searching the Internet much more efficient.Because he was an efficient worker, he had time left over to develop some of his own ideas.
- synonyms:
- businesslike, on the ball, operative, timesaving
- antonyms:
- feckless, inefficient
- similar words:
- adept, adroit, economical, good, neat, proficient, skillful, taut, thrifty
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| definition 2: |
bringing about an effect.
Studies have not found the medication to be efficient.- synonyms:
- effective, effectual, efficacious, valid
- antonyms:
- inefficient
- similar words:
- active, causative, operating, potent, productive, useful
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| related words: |
competent, effective, practical |
adverb + (adj.)efficient
brutally, economically, extremely, fast, highly, incredibly, less, more, most, relatively, remarkably, socially
(adj.)efficient
+ adverb
environmentally
(adj.)efficient
+ noun
allocation,
alternative,
appliance,
automobile,
battery,
bulb,
bureaucracy,
coal,
combustion,
competitor,
conditioner,
cooling,
delivery,
design,
distribution,
electricity,
engine,
equipment,
execution,
factory,
furnace,
generator,
heating,
hydrogen,
infrastructure,
irrigation,
lighting,
machine,
management,
manner,
manufacturing,
market,
means,
mechanism,
method,
motor,
operation,
outcome,
oxygen,
precaution,
predator,
premium,
processing,
processor,
producer,
production,
provider,
pump,
refrigerator,
resource,
storage,
stove,
system,
technique,
technology,
tool,
transfer,
transmission,
transport,
transportation,
turbine,
use,
utilization,
vehicle,
workout
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| derivation: |
efficiently (adv.) |
The word efficient
contains the following parts:
ef-
Latin
prefix
that means out, out of, away
  More about this word part:
The prefix ef-
is an assimilated form of the prefix ex-, used before roots beginning with f, such as "fac" and "fus." See ex-.
Example words:
fac, fic, fec, fact, fect
Latin
root
that means make, do
More about this word part:
This root is also the origin of the suffixes "-fy, -ify, -efy" and "-ification, -efaction".
Example words:
affect, affection, artifice, artificial, benefactor, beneficent, beneficial, benefit, confect, deficient, disaffect, discomfit, effect, efficient, fact, factory, fiction, fictitious, infect, malefactor, manufacture, orifice, proficient, sacrifice, satisfaction, satisfactory, significant, sufficient
-ant, -ent
Latin
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means (in adjectives) doing the action denoted by the verb root; (in nouns) one who or that which does the action denoted by the verb root.
More about this word part:
The suffix -ant
, -ent
forms adjectives and, to a much lesser extent, nouns from Latin verb stems such as fid in confident
and stud in student
. This suffix is the equivalent in Latin of the "-ing" inflection in English. Many adjectives ending in -ant
, -ent
have a corresponding noun ending in -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency.
Example words:
aberrant, accident, accidental, adherent, adjacent, affluent, agent, alterant, ambient, antecedent, applicant, arrogant, benevolent, coherent, combatant, complacent, confidant, confident, consequent, consultant, continent, conversant, current, defoliant, dependent, different, disinfectant, dissonant, dominant, efficient, eloquent, equilibrant, exorbitant, extravagant, fluent, hydrant, ignorant, important, inadvertent, incessant, incognizant, inconsonant, indignant, informant, itinerant, malevolent, miscreant, parent, participant, patient, precedent, predominant, president, prudent, pungent, recreant, reluctant, repugnant, resident, resonant, servant, significant, student, tenant, transcendent, vacant, vagrant, variant, verdant
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