Meanings
adjectivepostadolescent (not comparable)
- not comparableOccurring after a period of adolescence.
The let’s-try-anything, free-thinking society of 1968 evolved into a catastrophic blend of legitimate paranoia (Nixon did keep enemies lists, and the F.B.I. did infiltrate campuses) and postadolescent melodrama.
2007 June 17, Michael Goldfarb, “Where the Arts Were Too Liberal”, in New York Times
nounpostadolescent (plural postadolescents)
plural postadolescents
- One who has grown out of adolescence.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pós
- Proto-Indo-European*pósti
- Proto-Italic*posti
- Old Latinposte
- Latinpost
- Englishpost-
- Englishadolescent
- Englishpostadolescent
From post- + adolescent.
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Rhymes with postadolescent
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All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
postadolescent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postadolescent
MLA
“postadolescent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postadolescent. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postadolescent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postadolescent.
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