Definition of "ill-conditioned" [ill-conditioned]

• Being in bad condition, or having bad qualities; disordered or disorderly. In geometry, a triangle which has very unequal angles is said to be ill-conditioned.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Craig, the necessity for so many significant digits in some case more than are supported by double precision format seems to me an indication that the problem as posed was ill-conditioned."
• "A. A. Pope, of Boston, to arouse the people to an understanding of the burden which their ill-conditioned highways impose upon them."
• "'And a very ill-conditioned brute towards any other rider."