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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pessimal</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="person-of-no-account.html" title="person of no account"/><link rel="next" href="pessimizing-compiler.html" title="pessimizing compiler"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pessimal</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="person-of-no-account.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pessimizing-compiler.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pessimal"/><dt xmlns="" id="pessimal"><b>pessimal</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/pes´im·l/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Latin-based antonym for <span class="firstterm">optimal</span>] Maximally bad. “<span class="quote">This is a
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pessimal situation.</span>” Also <span class="firstterm">pessimize</span> <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To make as bad as possible. These words are
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the obvious Latin-based antonyms for <span class="firstterm">optimal</span> and <span class="firstterm">optimize</span>, but for some reason they do not
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appear in most English dictionaries, although ‘pessimize’ is
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