Efficient and Inept

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Efficient adjective - Producing or capable of producing a desired result.

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Inept is an antonym for efficient in topics: competent, adept.

Nearby Words: efficiency, efficiently, efficacy

Inept adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.

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Efficient is an antonym for inept in topics: incompetent, clumsy.

Nearby Words: ineptitude, ineptly

It's a case by case situation, with some being efficient and others inept, including an episode with a very clumsy Blissey who was an old friend of Jessie.

Source: Nurse with Good Intentions

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