Difference between Inadequate and Inefficient

INADEQUATE vs INEFFICIENT: ADJECTIVE

Not producing desired results; wasteful
Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate
Not efficient, as.
Not producing the intended result; ineffective.
Wasteful of time, energy, or materials.
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired, or achieiving the effect by unnnecessary and excessive expenditure of resources; inefficacious.
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing

Not adequate; not equal to requirement; insufficient to effect the end desired; incomplete; disproportionate; defective.
Synonyms Incommensurate, incompetent.
Of insufficient quantity to meet a need

Inadequate
Wasteful
Not producing desired results
Not efficient; not producing or not capable of producing the desired effect; incapable; incompetent; inadequate: as, inefficient measures; an inefficient police.

Inadequacy, Adequate, Unequal to, Short handed, Short staffed, Wanting, Short, Undermanned, Incapable, Incompetent, Poor, Lacking, Understaffed, Deficient, Insufficient

Ineffectual, Useless, Unwieldy, Uneconomic, Unworkable, Counterproductive, Efficient, Inadequate, Unproductive, Cumbersome, Inefficiency, Incompetent, Uneconomical, Ineffective, Wasteful

Inadequacy, Adequate, Unequal to, Short staffed, Short handed, Wanting, Short, Undermanned, Incapable, Incompetent, Poor, Lacking, Understaffed, Deficient, Insufficient

Ineffectual, Useless, Unwieldy, Uneconomic, Unworkable, Counterproductive, Efficient, Inadequate, Unproductive, Cumbersome, Inefficiency, Incompetent, Uneconomical, Ineffective, Wasteful

Performance is inadequate, indicates lack of skill, unsafe nursing practice, inadequate depth of knowledge, or application of nursing principles.
Safety audits have shown that many of our cities have inadequate vending spaces, lack of public facilities and inadequate transport.
Substandard assets are generally characterized by current or expected unprofitable operations, inadequate debt service coverage, inadequate liquidity, or marginal capitalization.
Fundamentally, inadequate coverage results in inadequate access and treatment, and Canadians recognize the need to address this.
The audits also showed that inmates had inadequate food, medical care, and in some cases inadequate housing.
We have entered a realm in which conventional wisdom, always inadequate, is dangerously inadequate.
Degradation Analysis is inadequate and results in inadequate consideration of reasonable protection measures.
Inadequate questioning of prospective buyers Inadequate tools and procedures to validate individual?
Inadequate QA staffing can also resultin inadequate quality auditing of the QC.
Poor product delivery, inadequate systems, and inadequate charge.

This will be very inefficient for the company.
Courts remained inefficient and routinely subject to corruption.
For example, most inefficient subject is Computer architecture.
Such externalities usually involve inefficient use of resources.
Admiral was surrounded by woefully inefficient legacy carriers.
Generic screening is inefficient in identifying quality problems.
Respondents concur that processes were inefficient and ineffective.
Economic practices inefficient in the global market disappear.
Due to inefficient logisticssolutions production process is extended.
Inefficient tax systems: ETR can reduce the economic costs of the tax system, which is especially desirable for countries with relatively inefficient tax systems.