pessimal
adj/ˈpɛ.sɪ.məl/ · /ˈpɛ.sə.məl/
Etymology From Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -al, modeled on optimal.
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Bad to a maximal extent; worst.
- Calculated in this way, a security value represents a pessimal view of possibilities.1989, Peter C. Ordeshook, Gregory F. Rose, Emerson M. Niou, The balance of power: Stability in international systems:
- "Optimal and Pessimal Orderings of Steiner Triple Systems in Disk Arrays1998, Bela Bolloas, “Modern Graph Theory”, in LATIN 2000: Theoretical Informatics:
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- …the limiting solution is a pessimal solution because the value of the objective function associated with it is zero.2019, Suresh P. Sethi, Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics:
- Derived terms
- pessimally
- Related terms
- pessimality, pessimism, pessimist, pessimistic, pessimize, pessimum