antepenultimate
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˌæntɪpɪˈnʌltɪv/
- Nevertheless, the article was still directed at informing your readers of the beliefs of, well, people like me, I guess... but I do not agree with a single one of the answers in the Q&A (except for the antepenultimate one, but it doesn't answer the question).
Examples
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In Polish, stress is predominantly fixed and is assigned to the penultimate syllable. Polish speakers frequently produce penultimate stress in English words that have antepenultimate stress. Hungarian is another language in which stress is predominantly fixed, and primary stress is assigned to the initial syllable of a word.
Academic text (2011) -
My antepenultimate word is to share yet another idea.
Blog text (24) -
In a list of favorite movies, my antepenultimate choice is a classic that everyone should see.
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The third from last chapter of the book provided a surprising twist, making it my antepenultimate favorite.
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The antepenultimate day of the vacation was packed with activities, leaving us exhausted but happy.
Synonyms
The third syllable from the end of a word when you count backwards
The third syllable from the end of a word
Surface Forms
Morphology
antepenultimate = penultimate (transparent) = ante + penultimate
Formed by the productive prefix 'ante-' (before) attached to the familiar adjective 'penultimate' (second to last), so the meaning 'before the penultimate' (third from last) is directly derived.
Etymology
Antepenultimate comes from ante- meaning 'before' and penultimate, which means 'almost last' and is related to ultimate 'last', so antepenultimate is 'before the almost last' — that is, third from last.