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Ultimate vs Penult - What's the difference?

ultimate | penult |


As nouns the difference between ultimate and penult

is that ultimate is the most basic or fundamental of a set of things while penult is the next-to-last syllable of a word.

As an adjective ultimate

is final; last in a series.