secondmost

Alternative form of second most.

Adverb

  1. Alternative form of second most.
    • Usually he cannot even buy time on the secondmost popular program on the secondmost popular network. - 1973, Leon Quera, Advertising campaigns: formulation and tactics, page 79:
    • In fact, this sort of initial stance explains inter alia: (a) secondmost nuclear status in valency marking... - 1984, Frans Plank, Objects: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations, page 10:
    • Those two derived character states affected the location of maximum blade width (proximal quarter → secondmost proximal quarter) and the length/width ratio (3.00-3.99 → 2.00-2.99). - 2003, Michael John O'Brien, R. Lee...

Origin

Probably influenced by foremost and other such terms (hindmost, etc).