Home › Words › S › suboptimalitysuboptimalitysuboptimality means the state or condition of being suboptimal.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, suboptimality ranks #29,379 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom suboptimal + -ity.nounThe state or condition of being suboptimal.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.suboptimal 79% match — Worse than optimal; of less than the highest standard or quality. vs suboptimality →suboptimally 76% match — In a less than optimal manner. vs suboptimality →optimality 69% match — The property of being optimal. vs suboptimality →subnormality 69% match — The state or condition of being subnormal. vs suboptimality →underoptimization 66% match — The act or process of underoptimizing. vs suboptimality →optimity 64% match — The state of being best. vs suboptimality →suboptimization 64% match — The optimization of a subunit (or series of subunits) of an organization without good coordination with other subunits, resulting in the whole organisation's outcome or output being less than optimal. vs suboptimality →submarginal 62% match — Less than, or worse than, marginal. Not meeting even the minimum standard of quality. vs suboptimality →