Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Preceding the antepenultimate; being the fourth from the last: as, a preantepenultimate syllable.
Etymologies
- Nominal sense attested since 1746; adjectival sense attested since 1791: pre- + antepenultimate. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The word for "fourth to last" is preantepenultimate.”
“Someone else wrote, asking me to clarify whether I meant 'third from the end' or 'fourth from the end' in the definition of the word preantepenultimate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘preantepenultimate’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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Ultimates
ultimate, penultimate, The Ultimates, Ultimate Frisbee, Ultimate, Ultimate!, preantepenultimate, antepenultimate, Ultimate Fighting..., ultimate cause, somersaultimate, resultimate and 25 more...
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Quashmonger's Word-O-Rama
defenestration, procrustean, schadenfreude, philtrum, earworm, mondegreen, corpulent, miasma, preantepenultimate, déjà visité, jamais vu
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Favorite Words
pablum, maundy, histrionic, adamant, ascribe, verbiage, insouciant, erudite, gregarious, superfluous, banal, obdurate and 280 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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Words I Love But Don't Use Enough
Thanks to all you Wordies out there flinging new words at my head. This one's for you.
phascolomian, flammulated, pelagic, avuncular, spondulicks, frippery, wyvern, stramash, cack-handed, bellicosity, infrared reflecto..., contumeliously and 106 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Numbers
Words involving numbers, mathematics, statistics, counting, etc.
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Words to Use
Good for vocab! The seemingly common words are actually referring to lesser-known definitions.
depravity, lampoonery, copacetic, ferrule, feat, saddle, scroop, auteur, demiurge, paunch, peripatetic, demur and 104 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
Tweets
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Xina54 Preceding the antepenultimate; being the fourth from the last: as, a preantepenultimate syllable. Feb 18, 2011
jmjarmstrong JM knows that preantepenultimate is a useful word but he can never think far enough ahead to use it! Apr 2, 2010
bilby Anti-climactic. May 19, 2008
slumry This word makes me laugh. Jul 24, 2007
reesetee fourth from last Feb 23, 2007