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Pessima vs Pessimal - What's the difference?

pessima | pessimal |

As adjectives the difference between pessima and pessimal

is that pessima is while pessimal is bad to a maximal extent; worst.

pessima

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    pessimal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • bad to a maximal extent; worst

    • Related terms

    * pessimism * pessimist * pessimistic *pessimize

    Antonyms

    * optimal

    Quotations

    Bollobas, Bela. Modern Graph Theory. 1998. * "Optimal and Pessimal Orderings of Steiner Triple Systems in Disk Arrays" [http://books.google.ca/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=MbR0qLpZv6kC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=pessimal&prev=http://books.google.ca/books%3Fq%3Dpessimal&sig=tGb9PFkNTjBz3SV09u_Qky3H4Fk] Ordeshook, Peter C; Rose, Gregory F; Niou, Emerson M. The balance of power: Stability in international systems. 1989. * "Calculated in this way, a security value represents a pessimal view of possibilities." [http://books.google.ca/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=BMyLrCrBQ9MC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=pessimal&prev=http://books.google.ca/books%3Fq%3Dpessimal%26lr%3D%26start%3D20&sig=eQ5lom-Bgbr59WpYMXzqtxcST80]