Synonyms of the word

penultimate

• adj. (Britain, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding…
• adj. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.
• adj. (mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily…
• n. (uncommon) A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly.

last

• adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
• adj. Most recent, latest, last so far.
• adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
• adj. Being the only one remaining of its class.
• adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
• adj. Lowest in rank or degree.
• adv. Most recently.
• adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
• v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
• n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
• v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
• n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
• n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
• n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
• n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

next-to-last

• adj. Alternative form of next to last.

penult

• n. The next-to-last syllable of a word.
• n. The next to the last in a series.

penultima

• n. last syllable but one.

syllable

• n. (linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables…
• n. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
• n. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.