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penultimately

penultimately adverb: next to the last in order.

Adverb

penultimately (not comparable)

  1. Next to the last in order.
    • Our sincere thanks, penultimately, to the countless hordes of you who, during our absence, sent in...2007 Aug 28, Jon Henley in The Guardian, Diary.
    • Tied to a BBC 2 Scotland documentary, Scotland's Top Ten Battlegrounds on Tuesday night, the BBC poll ranked the issues in order from the economy – given a weighting of 1.38, to pensions (0.63), then welfare (0.57), Scotland and the UK (0.51), currency (0.4), immigration (0.39), energy (0.35)...2014 February 12, Severin Carrell, “It's the economy stupid: how Scotland's voters approach the independence vote”, in The Guardian

Origin of penultimately

From penultimate + -ly.

Questions about penultimately

What does penultimately mean?
Penultimately means next to the last in order.
What part of speech is penultimately?
Penultimately is an adverb.

Words near penultimately in the dictionary

  1. penultima
  2. penultima law
  3. penultimas
  4. penultimata
  5. penultimate
  6. penultimately
  7. penultimates
  8. penultimatum
  9. penultimatums
  10. penults
  11. penumbra

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