efficiently

[ih-fish-uhnt-lee]

adverb

1. in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; capably or competently.

   Getting this many people to pass information among themselves efficiently, let alone come up with a coherent plan that everybody understands, requires practice.

2. in a satisfactory and economical way.

   The product they are donating will give our volunteers the proper materials to build our homes as efficiently as possible.

3. in a way that utilizes a particular resource with the least waste (usually used in combination).

   The lighter your car is, the more fuel-efficiently it will drive.

Other Word Forms

• nonefficiently adverb
• quasi-efficiently adverb
• superefficiently adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of efficiently¹

efficient ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

I wonder how well and efficiently he would have written it with frequent and intermittent shouts being thrown his way, regardless of whether they were insults or encouragements.

Read more on Wall Street Journal

Water transfers heat much more efficiently than air does.

Read more on Wall Street Journal

She finds cosmic significance in the creature’s efficiently programmed movements, and pathos when she returns the next day and both it and the web are gone.

Read more on Wall Street Journal

“Because of that, you see businesses being built much more efficiently out of necessity and make harder trade-offs earlier on in the company’s life cycle.”

Read more on Wall Street Journal

Investors are seeking ways of producing lithium more efficiently than traditional methods, and without needing to ship it to China, where most lithium is refined today.

Read more on Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• assiduously 
• carefully 
• completely 
• comprehensively www.thesaurus.com
• conscientiously www.thesaurus.com
• earnestly 
• extremely 
• fully 
• highly 
• intensely 
• intensively www.thesaurus.com
• meticulously 
• painstakingly www.thesaurus.com
• scrupulously 
• very 
• wholly