worst-case

English

Adjective

worst-case (not comparable)

  1. In the least favorable of all possible circumstances.
    In a worst-case scenario, according to the ILO, 51 million jobs could be lost in 2009.
    • 2020 November 18, Paul Clifton, “We have always cleaned trains. Now, we are sanitising them”, in Rail, pages 32–33:
      In the summer, the RSSB calculated that passengers stood a 1-in-11,000 chance of catching COVID-19 on a train - a statistic it felt was actually a worst-case figure, with the risk probably even lower.

Antonyms

  • best-case/worst-case
  • best-case/worst-case analysis
  • best-case/worst-case scenario
  • worst-case scenario

References

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