Able and Inefficient

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Able adjective - Having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance.

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Inefficient is an antonym for able in capable topic.

Nearby Word: ability

Inefficient adjective - Not producing the desired result.

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Able is an antonym for inefficient in topics: incompetent, wasteful.

In comparison, the rebels' fancy Kung-Fu, which still works despite being inefficient, reflects how they're able to bend the rules.

Source: Franchise / The Matrix
However the book screws up in assuming that there is infinite amount of raw resources on Earth to be able to support such an inefficient economic system.

Source: Artistic License Economics
This is inefficient, costly, WILL kill good agents and negates the idea that the Mole may be either prepared for this and able to fake his or her death, or is simply unlucky and one of the ones killed.

Source: Just For Fun / If I Am Ever Head of an Alien Monitoring Agency

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