optimise

Other forms of optimise

past tense

optimised·

present participle

optimising·

third person

optimises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about optimise

What does optimise mean?

optimise means "make optimal; get the most out of; use best". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in optimise?

optimise has 3 syllables: op-ti-mise. The stress falls on "op".

What is another word for optimise?

Close synonyms include optimize, optimize, optimize. 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 optimise a common word?

optimise 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.