efficient
from
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}]
from
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]
from
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
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