OPTIMAL Antonyms

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• of or characteristic of low rank or importance

• of low or inferior quality

• written or printed below and to one side of another character

• having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit

• one of lesser rank or station or quality

• a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

• lower than a given reference point

• falling short of some prescribed norm

• having little money or few possessions

• characterized by or indicating poverty

• lacking in quality or substances

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

• deserving or inciting pity

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• not acceptable; not welcome

• not adequate to give satisfaction

• (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable

• not conforming to standard usage

• not encouraging or approving or pleasing

• (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose

• involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

• not giving satisfaction

• Worse than optimal.