The word penultimate typically refers to the second from last in a series. There are no categorical antonyms for this word. However, one could loosely use second as an antonym.
Adverb
Opposite of adverb for denotes the ordinal or positional number of one, preceding all others in a series
“The sequence was composed of numbers where the following number was found by adding the last two numbers together.”
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