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unideal

  • a word derived from ideal.

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In the case of TRAPPIST-1’s planets, this means that one hemisphere may experience eternal daytime, and the other, eternal night: perhaps unideal conditions for life to evolve.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2023

“We held onto hope as long as we could,” but a forecast of unideal conditions forced a delay, the resort wrote on its website Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021

It is, in a sense, the ideal of the unideal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Are we teachers to wait for ideal conditions before trying to help these unideal children learn to use what they have in the best way possible in an imperfect world?

From Time Magazine Archive

What we shall see, he thought, may be faulty, common, unideal, imperfect.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)