Difference between Inefficient and Wasteful

INEFFICIENT vs WASTEFUL: ADJECTIVE

Wasteful of time, energy, or materials.
Not producing the intended result; ineffective.
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 efficient, as.
Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate
Not producing desired results; wasteful

Tending to squander and waste
Laying waste
Marked by or inclined to waste; extravagant.
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous.
Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal.
Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
Uninhabited, desolate.
Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials

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

Destructive; devastating; wasting.
Producing or involving waste; occasioning serious loss or damage; ruinous.
Extravagant or lavish; profuse to excess; prodigal; squandering: as, a wasteful person.
Synonyms and
Thriftless, unthrifty.
Lavish, Profuse, etc. See extravagant.
Uninhabited; desolate; waste.

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

Wastage, Ineffective, Useless, Pointless, Costly, Unnecessary, Pound foolish, Prodigal, Uneconomic, Uneconomical, Destructive, Spendthrift, Extravagant, Profligate, Inefficient

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

Wastage, Ineffective, Useless, Pointless, Costly, Unnecessary, Pound foolish, Prodigal, Uneconomic, Uneconomical, Destructive, Spendthrift, Extravagant, Profligate, Inefficient

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.

United States under present wasteful legislation and administration.
In what sense is a person does wasteful?
This is wasteful and exacerbates the performance issues.
CAPS were however wasteful in the second half.
Promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
Inhumane, Ineffective, and Wasteful, Southern Poverty Law Center.
Certain orthodox economists have criticized mining as wasteful.
Such a partisan strategy is wasteful and polarizing.
Politics seems very wasteful of time and money.
FRUITLESS AND WASTEFUL EXPENDITUREThere was no fruitless or wasteful expenditure incurred during the period under review.