Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of post-apocalyptic.
The novel dealt with life in a postapocalyptic France.
1 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pós
- Proto-Indo-European*pósti
- Proto-Italic*posti
- Old Latinposte
- Latinpost
- Englishpost-
- Englishapocalyptic
- Englishpostapocalyptic
From post- + apocalyptic.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
postapocalyptic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postapocalyptic
“postapocalyptic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postapocalyptic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postapocalyptic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postapocalyptic.
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