Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

optimific

/ˌɒp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: op-ti-mif-ic
IPA: /ˌɒp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

producing the optimum outcome

Example Sentences

"The U-agent will have few choices about how to lead his life, few opportunities to act on considerations of the kind of person he is, or wants to become. He will thus have little room for the things we associate with the very idea of 'leading a life'. These will all be submerged beneath the question of which causal levers are optimific."
"If we suppose that everyone will try to follow some set of rules, some possible rules would be optimific in the sense that, if these are the rules that everyone tries to follow, things would go best."

Etymology

From optimum + -ific.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌɒp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/
British English: /ˌɑp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/

Inflected Forms

more optimific (comparative) most optimific (superlative)

Rhymes With

specific scientific pacific terrific horrific prolific honorific hieroglyphic calorific soporific unspecific transpacific

Questions

How do you pronounce optimific?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɒp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/.
What does optimific mean?: producing the optimum outcome
Where does optimific come from?: From optimum + -ific.

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