suboptimal
Adjective
Meaning
suboptimal (not comparable)
Worse than optimal.
A quickly produced suboptimal solution to a problem is often more useful than an optimal one that takes a long time to produce.
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Australia did not adopt a national accreditation system, which may lead to suboptimal choice of mediators.
His health records indicate that Kinsey received suboptimal exposure to sunlight (often the cause of rickets, before milk and other foods were fortified with vitamin D ) and lived in unsanitary conditions for at least part of his childhood.
Regardless which hand evaluation is used (HCP, LTC, NLTC, etc.) without the partners exchanging information about specific suit strengths and suit lengths, a suboptimal evaluation of the trick taking potential of the combined hands will often result.
Even the kind of breakage that never makes it past release testing to a user can be extremely harmful if it confuses another developer team, causing them to write wrong (or even just suboptimal) clients for your API.
“If diabetes control is suboptimal on the maximum dose of one medication, it’s prudent to add on a second agent,” says Deepashree Gupta, MD, assistant professor of endocrinology at Saint Louis University in Missouri.
If suboptimal platelet counts are suspected, post transfusion platelet counts should be obtained within 1 hour of transfusion and again at 24 hours of transfusion to calculate the CCI.