uneconomic

/ ˌʌniːkəˈnɒmɪk; ˌʌnɛkə- /

adjective

Cheap gas has also rendered government-preferred energy sources like solar even more uneconomic than they were beforehand.

This is only possible at the most uneconomic position of the valve as regards cut off.

Put out at a time when money was scarce, the loan would have been unpatriotic and uneconomic.

Ugliness is the aesthetic, or theoretical aspect of sin; in its practical aspect sin is uneconomic, un-moral.

My grandfather had, I have heard, a theory that small holdings of land were uneconomic.

Announcements of this kind may be classified, it seems to me, as economic, uneconomic and illegitimate.

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