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pessimal

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛ.sɪ.məl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeilmpssStarts with PEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival

Word origin

From Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -al, modeled on optimal.

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  • Calculated in this way, a security value represents a pessimal view of possibilities.
  • "Optimal and Pessimal Orderings of Steiner Triple Systems in Disk Arrays
  • …the limiting solution is a pessimal solution because the value of the objective function associated with it is zero.

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