pessimos

Pessimos is most commonly encountered as a misspelling of the Portuguese adjective péssimos, the masculine plural form of péssimo. The standard spelling uses an acute accent on the first e, yielding péssimos for masculine plural and péssimas for feminine plural. When written without diacritics, as pessimos, the word may appear in informal texts or in contexts where accents are omitted, but it is not the correct form in standard Portuguese.

Etymology and meaning: péssimo derives from Latin pessimus, meaning “worst” or “most defective.” In Portuguese, the word functions as a superlative adjective describing quality, risk, performance, or condition, and it agrees with the gender and number of the noun it modifies.

Usage: péssimos (masculine plural) is used to describe multiple items or instances of very poor quality or outcome, for example, “os péssimos resultados” (the very bad results) or “condições péssimas” (extremely poor conditions). The feminine plural form péssimas and other inflected forms follow the same pattern of agreement.

Other uses: péssimos can occur as part of proper names or titles in some places, but such uses are not widely documented and vary by language region. In most contexts, the term is encountered as an ordinary adjective rather than a fixed proper noun.

See also: related forms include péssimo (singular masculine), péssima (singular feminine), and péssimas (feminine plural). The term is linguistically related to similar forms in Romance languages deriving from Latin pessimus.