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suboptimal

also sub-optimal, 1901, from sub- + optimal. Related: Suboptimally.

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suboptimal

a. Less than optimal.

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Most of the time, they leave us stranded, as it were, in the basins of insufficiently strange attractors: stable but suboptimal norms, programs that work just well enough to avert too frequent crashes, and to foreclose the chance of further innovation.