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pessimal
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/pesiml/ , adj. [Latin-based antonym for optimal ] Maximally bad. This is a
pessimal situation. Also pessimize vt. To make as bad as possible. These
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words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for optimal and optimize, but
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for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although
pessimize is listed in the OED.