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Middling or worse
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suboptimal
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sub-optimal , 1901, from sub- + optimal . Related: Suboptimally .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Less than optimal.
Usage examples of suboptimal.
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.