Meanings
adjectivepoststructuralist (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesOf, pertaining to, or advocating post-structuralism
In reading Davis’s stories, therefore, we are likely to be reminded as much of the poststructuralist emphasis on language in the works of Blanchot as of the antinarrative impulse of French nouveau-Romanists like Butor.
2007 May 27, Siddhartha Deb, “Just So Stories”, in New York Times
nounpoststructuralist (plural poststructuralists)
plural poststructuralists · alternative post-structuralist
- human sciencesAn advocate of post-structuralism
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pós
- Proto-Indo-European*pósti
- Proto-Italic*posti
- Old Latinposte
- Latinpost
- Englishpost-
- Englishstructuralist
- Englishpoststructuralist
From post- + structuralist.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish poststrukturalistyczny, poststrukturalista
- poststrukturalistycznyrelated to post-structuralism
- poststrukturalistaadvocate of post-structuralism
- poststrukturalistkaadvocate of post-structuralism
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APA
poststructuralist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poststructuralist
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“poststructuralist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poststructuralist. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “poststructuralist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poststructuralist.
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