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What is the adjective for efficient?

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efficient
  1. Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
  2. Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
  3. Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change. (Rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent.)
  4. (proscribed, old use) Effective.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Everything is meant to be utilitarian and efficient, at the expense of relaxation or comfort.”
      “This device is very efficient at processing complex calculations.”
      “She is probably the most efficient hairdresser I have ever come across, and I have come across a lot of hairdressers in my lifetime.”
efficacious
  1. Effective; possessing efficacy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Alternatively, the pomelo peel can be preserved with sugar and made into soup, which is an efficacious drug for carsickness.”
      “There may be occasions, for instance, when a dose of old-fashioned common sense can be as efficacious as a more sophisticated remedy.”
      “Clinical trials are in progress and research is ongoing for developing a safe and efficacious vaccine against the disease.”
efficious
  1. (rare, nonstandard) Efficacious.
  2. Examples:
    1. “These norms are valid not because the total order is efficious, but because they are created in a constitutional way. ”
      “They are agreeable and efficious errhines, or sneezing-powders, and superior to most of those sold under the denomination of herb snuff. ”
      “She realized that was perhaps not the most efficious tact to take and immediately she dropped it and picked another.”
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