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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. being effective without wasting time or effort or expense;
- Example: "an efficient production manager"
- Example: "efficient engines save gas"

2. able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively;
- Example: "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw
- Example: "effective personnel"
- Example: "an efficient secretary"
- Example: "the efficient cause of the revolution"
[syn: effective, efficient]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

efficient \ef*fi"cient\ ([e^]f*f[i^]sh"ent), a. [L. efficiens, -entis, p. pr. of efficere to effect: cf. F. efficient. See Effect, n.] Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. [1913 Webster] The efficient cause is the working cause. --Wilson. Syn: Effective; effectual; competent; able; capable; material; potent. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Efficient \Ef*fi"cient\, n. An efficient cause; a prime mover. [1913 Webster] God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

efficient adj 1: being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas" [ant: inefficient] 2: able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution" [syn: effective, efficient]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "efficient": able, active, adequate, au fait, banausic, capable, competent, economic, effective, effectual, efficacious, equal to, feasible, fit, fitted, fitted for, functional, go, journeyman, operable, operational, operative, practicable, practical, pragmatic, productive, proficient, qualified, realizable, suited, thrifty, unwasteful, up to, up to snuff, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, workable, worthy