Pronunciation: /ˈɒptɪv/
Definition:
1. Quality of being desirable or favorable.
2. Attribute reflecting preference or selection.
3. Characteristics indicative of advantage or benefit.
4. Feature associated with positivity or approval.
Significance:
• It defines preferential traits.
• It emphasizes advantages and benefits.
• It identifies positive attributes.
• It avoids unclear and ambiguous pronunciations.
• It simplifies descriptions of desirability.
• It improves clarity in evaluative contexts.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to "good."
Adjective: optive
Adverb: optively
Definition:
1. Quality of being desirable or favorable.
2. Attribute reflecting preference or selection.
3. Characteristics indicative of advantage or benefit.
4. Feature associated with positivity or approval.
Significance:
• It defines preferential traits.
• It emphasizes advantages and benefits.
• It identifies positive attributes.
• It avoids unclear and ambiguous pronunciations.
• It simplifies descriptions of desirability.
• It improves clarity in evaluative contexts.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to "good."
Adjective: optive
Adverb: optively
Examples:
• "Optive decisions defer successful results."
• "Consumers aspire to optive products for maximum satisfaction."
• "Candidates strive to demonstrate optive qualifications."
• "Employers value employees with optive labor ethics."
• "Marketing campaigns emphasize optive features to attract customers."
• "Optive decisions defer successful results."
• "Consumers aspire to optive products for maximum satisfaction."
• "Candidates strive to demonstrate optive qualifications."
• "Employers value employees with optive labor ethics."
• "Marketing campaigns emphasize optive features to attract customers."
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A board game that consists of a persons life in shambles. Activities include running from police, dating younger homosexual men, calling off work, getting completely wasted and high, proceeding to drive home wasted and high, and mispronouncing words and creating incomplete sentences.
Gee guys, I feel pretty shitty about my life. Let's play "Better Option?" so we don't feel so bad about ourselves.
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Person B: Well...life in many ways is Pareto optimal. Besides I heard from someone that her campaign slogan was, "Anarchy is my policy for men."
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Get the edit options mug.(n.) one who complains about things while they are occurring, but who retroactively says that everything was/is good in hindsight
Trevor, the quintessential post-optimist, couldn't refrain from telling his mother how nice Thanksgiving had been -- all this in lieu of his chronic diarrhea.
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