3syllables
penultimate
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Definitions ofpenultimate
1noun
- A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly:
Synonyms: penult
1adjective
- (in United States usually formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
- Of or pertaining to a penult.
- Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
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