at the best

1. 1.

   under the best of conditions

   “at best we'll lose only the money”

   Synonymsat best

Questions about at the best

What does at the best mean?

at the best means "under the best of conditions".

What is another word for at the best?

Close synonyms include at best. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at the best a common word?

at the best is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.