Meanings
- not comparableAfter a season (such as a holiday season, hunting season, flu season, etc.)
An unwanted distraction looms darkly on the horizon, a postseasonal hurricane.
2017, Scott Johnson, Heartstrings in B-Flat Minor3 more examples
Atmospheric mold sensitivity may prolong postseasonal ragweed symptoms until frost.
1975, French Keller Hansel, Allergy and Immunity in Otolaryngology:, page 61Then, for a third time in postseasonal play , the Dodgers rose from the dead ; after snatching three single - run victories , the Dodgers buried the Yanks 9-2 before a shocked Yankee Stadium crowd.
1987, David Quentin Voigt, Baseball, page 342But few small shops have the traffic to ensure that all of the postseasonal merchandise is sold within a few days of a holiday.
2002, Carol L. Schroeder, Specialty Shop Retailing, page 96 - not comparableOutdated; based on the culture of an earlier time.
Otherwise one falls prey to being "postseasonal,” or on the wrong side of history.
2019, Darius Sollohub, Millennials in Architecture, page 942 more examples
"One is all the more delighted," he writes in a note, "to revel in these postseasonal rarities which have the flavor of a second coming, and a mystery."
2001, Pierre Nora, Rethinking France: Legacies, page 317Nearly every static ideology is likely to advance in one turning per saeculum (when what it offers is preseasonal and useful) and retreat in another (when what it offers is postseasonal and harmful).
2009, William Strauss, Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning, page 310
Origin
From post- + seasonal or postseason + -al.
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