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postapocalyptic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English apocalyptic English postapocalyptic From post- + apocalyptic.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of post-apocalyptic.
    • Now she’s been spending her days hanging out at KMUN, learning about the seemingly outmoded technology of terrestrial radio, which she thinks will gain a kind of “postapocalyptic” usefulness to humanity as the internet is overrun with AI slop. 2025 May 5, Spencer Kornhaber, “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 May 2025:
    • The novel dealt with life in a postapocalyptic France.