| 单词 | optimal |
| 释义 | optimal (once / 13988 pages) adj Something that's optimal is the best or most favorable for a given situation. Flowers? Check. Chocolates? Check. Dinner reservation? Check. Sounds like you have the optimal conditions for a successful anniversary date. There's an implication with optimal that certain restrictions exist in a given situation, so that what is optimal isn't necessarily the ideal scenario — it's the best one given those limitations. For example, optimal population levels for a species are not the highest levels — instead they're the best levels that a particular environment can sustain. Often the word optimum is used interchangeably with optimal. WORD FAMILYoptimal: optimally USAGE EXAMPLESDon’t assume that there’s one optimal version of your life, they say, and that if you chose wrong, you’ve blown it. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) In a nutshell, it involves using diversification, and sometimes borrowed money, to find an optimal balance between risk and return. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) Achieving optimal health and wellness requires that we manage stressors as well as our response to it. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied optimal concentration of a drug Syn optimum best (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities |
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