ninety-ninth

American  

[nahyn-tee-nahynth] / ˈnaɪn tiˈnaɪnθ /

adjective

1. next after the ninety-eighth; being the ordinal number for 99.

2. being one of 99 equal parts.

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noun

1. a ninety-ninth part, especially of one (1/99).

2. the ninety-ninth member of a series.

Example Sentences

He had aced the ACT and placed in the ninety-ninth percentile on the SAT.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

“We just named a star for Kirk Douglas, for his ninety-ninth birthday,” she said.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

But at every turn his reluctance and ambivalence was apparent: he was the ninety-ninth person in, warily eying the rock.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

It is also on the Modern Library’s list of the best one hundred novels of the twentieth century, in ninety-ninth place, between James Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2015

Gunters called this “making the climb to ninety-nine,” because ninety-ninth level was the maximum power level an avatar could attain.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline