Added 10 October 2026 forty-second /ˌfɔːti ˈsɛkənd/ adjective Categories: Describing WordsObscure Words adjective ! Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about forty-second at Wordnik → Where our words come from → The ordinal form of the number forty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 42 of a sequence. The answer appears on the forty-second page of the book. Lasting forty seconds. noun One of forty-two equal parts of a whole. A forty-second of 840 is 20. Related Words: forty-firstforty-third42ndfortiethfortyforty-twoforty-fourthforty-seventhforty-sixthforty-eighthforty-fifthforty-ninth Back to today's word