last but not least

1. 1.

   in addition to all the foregoing

   “last not least he plays the saxophone”

   Synonymslast not least

Questions about last but not least

What does last but not least mean?

last but not least means "in addition to all the foregoing".

What is another word for last but not least?

Close synonyms include last not least. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is last but not least a common word?

last but not least is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.