Efficient

  • 81EFFICIENT — ENTE. adj. Qui produit certain effet. Il n est guère usité qu au féminin, et dans cette locution, Cause efficiente. Le soleil est la cause efficiente de la chaleur …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 82efficient — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 83efficient — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. effective, effectual, efficacious, operative; skillful, capable, productive, competent; causative. See power, skill, agency, cause, utility. Ant., inefficient, ineffectual. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ …

    English dictionary for students

  • 84efficient — see EFFECT …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 85efficient — ef fi·cient || nt adj. effective, done without waste (of time, resources, etc.) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 86efficient — adj 1. efficacious, effectual, effective, effecting, valid, active, operative, operant; causative, productive, producing, generative, generating, assembly line; potent, powerful, high powered, puissant, energetic, vigorous, dynamic. 2. competent …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 87efficient — ef·fi·cient …

    English syllables

  • 88efficient — /əˈfɪʃənt / (say uh fishuhnt), /i / (say ee ) adjective 1. effective in the use of energy or resources. 2. adequate in operation or performance; having and using the requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable. 3. producing an… …

  • 89efficient — Causing an effect; particularly the result or results contemplated. Adequate in performance or producing properly a desired effect. Spotts v. Baltimore & 0. R. Co., C.C.A.Ind., 102 F.2d 160, 162 …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 90efficient — Causing an effect; particularly the result or results contemplated. Adequate in performance or producing properly a desired effect. Spotts v. Baltimore & 0. R. Co., C.C.A.Ind., 102 F.2d 160, 162 …

    Black's law dictionary