What does forelast mean?
Forelast means (rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last..
Certain disyllables, being both Nouns and Verbs, are distinguished by the Accent: the Verb having it in the last, and the Noun in the fore-last[…]
The only difference between the 12 song books selected, which is at all worth mentioning, is that Aiken, Gantvoort, Jepson, Ripley, Zeiner have in the forelast bar—[sheet music] whereas[…]
[T]he #92;dot#123;V#125;#95;#123;O#95;2#125; increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.
The second statement is a special case of the forelast, and the forelast one follows from the last, whose proof is obvious[…]
when the blight came on the crop the summer forelast he would not help us.
Use forelast when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Forelast means (rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last..
Common synonyms include penultimate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Certain disyllables, being both Nouns and Verbs, are distinguished by the Accent: the Verb having it in the last, and the Noun in the fore-last[…]
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