Comment by OnlineGladiator
4 years ago
> antepenultimate
And I thought knowing what penultimate meant was fun. For those that don't know, penultimate means second to last and antepenultimate means third to last.
4 years ago
> antepenultimate
And I thought knowing what penultimate meant was fun. For those that don't know, penultimate means second to last and antepenultimate means third to last.
(There's also "preantepenultimate" if you ever want to say fourth to last without saying fourth to last...)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preantepenultimate
Now I'm curious if there's a word meaning 'having more syllables than the definition itself' because we crossed that barrier back at antepenultimate (and penultimate already is tied with 'second to last').
Well, there’s sesquipedalia for long words. You can also try hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedalio....
And apparently propreantepenultimate. Love this lol
Literal soyjack poggers-posting reddit cunt. "Love this lol."
Please kill yourself in a fucking dumpster so nobody has to inconvenience himself cleaning up the mess you left behind.
This aversion to repetition has also engendered such words as quasihemidemisemiquaver—half half half half eighth note.