Efficient and Useful

Efficient

Efficient adjective - Producing or capable of producing a desired result.
Usage example: that manual lawn mower is not a very efficient tool for doing a huge yard

Useful is a synonym for efficient in adept topic. In some cases you can use "Useful" instead an adjective "Efficient".

Nearby Words: efficiency, efficiently, efficacy

Useful

Useful adjective - Capable of being put to use or account.

Efficient is a synonym for useful. Sometimes you can use "Efficient" instead an adjective "Useful".

Nearby Words: use, useless, used, usefulness, usefully

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Dead Rising 2 Quite a few of the Combo Card weapons aren't so much useful and efficient survival weapons as much as they are zombie torture devices.
  • Video Game / Dishonored Boring but Practical: Many options are less interesting than "possessing a man into walking into his own bullet" or other Rasputinian Deaths, but are far more useful and efficient.
  • Power Creep In the case of 3.5, Feats and Magic Items from later books in that Edition's print run were much more useful and efficient than earlier counterparts.
    Source: Power Creep
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