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PENULTIMATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does penultimate mean?
• PENULTIMATE (noun)
The noun PENULTIMATE has 1 sense:
1. the next to last syllable in a word
Familiarity information: PENULTIMATE used as a noun is very rare.
• PENULTIMATE (adjective)
The adjective PENULTIMATE has 1 sense:
1. second last
Familiarity information: PENULTIMATE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The next to last syllable in a word
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
penult; penultima; penultimate
Hypernyms ("penultimate" is a kind of...):
syllable (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Second last
Synonyms:
next-to-last; penultimate
Context example:
the figures in the next-to-last column
Similar:
intermediate (lying between two extremes in time or space or state)
Context examples
Penultimate Observation Carried Forward: A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the subject's next-to-last nonmissing value.
(Penultimate Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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