clever vs efficient

clever

adj
  • Mentally quick and resourceful. 

  • Skilled at achieving what one wants, especially via unusual methods. 

  • Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept. 

  • Showing inventiveness or originality; witty. 

  • Possessing magical abilities. 

  • Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp. 

  • Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent. 

  • Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness. 

efficient

adj
  • making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy 

  • expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input 

  • causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent) 

  • effective, efficacious 

How often have the words clever and efficient occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )