best case
Most favorable outcome
Best case describes the most favorable possible outcome in a situation involving uncertainty: Best case, we finish by Friday.
Often paired with worst case to bracket the range of possibilities: Best case we break even, worst case we lose everything.
The phrase typically appears as an adjective before nouns like scenario or outcome: a best-case scenario.
- optimalMost desirable outcome
- idealStandard of perfection
- perfectWithout any flaw
- scenarioPostulated event sequence
- outcomeFinal result of events
hopeful · upside · favorable · silver lining · rosy · dream · pie in the sky · wishful · fairy tale ending · ceiling · maximum · potential · blue sky · success · triumph · winning streak · flawless · smooth
- Strategic Planningcontingency plan, contingency plans, forecasting, roadmap, decision tree
- optimizationoptimization, caching, optimum, indexing, prefetching
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactics, tactic, tactical
- scenarioshypothetical, what-if, nightmare scenario, dream scenario, backup plan
- speculationconjecture, guess, guessing, speculation, hypothesis
- Possibilitymaybe, perhaps, possibly, could, might
outcome quality
best caseworst case
Most unfavorable possibility
worst-case scenario · nightmare scenario · doomsday scenario · rock bottom · downside