Penultimately
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Penultimately is an adverb meaning Next to the last in order.
Meaning
Next to the last in order.
Example Sentences
2007 Aug 28, Jon Henley in The Guardian, Diary. Our sincere thanks, penultimately, to the countless hordes of you who, during our absence, sent in.
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), defence (0.33), to penultimately Scotland and the EU (0.31), with broadcasting (poor BBC) trailing a very poor last, with a rating of merely 0.05.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ultimately, sequentially, finally, semifinally, thirdly, nextly.
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