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peri-apocalyptic

peri-apocalyptic adjective: during an apocalypse.

Adjective

peri-apocalyptic (comparative more peri-apocalyptic, superlative most peri-apocalyptic)

  1. During an apocalypse.
    • Outage is 150,000 word novel of a genre I’d call peri-apocalyptic. It’s not post-apocalyptic because it doesn’t take place after the “end of the world,” but during.2012 January 28, Peter Joseph Lewis, quoting Mathieu Gallant, “Mathieu Gallant - Outage”, in Why Did You Write That?

Forms of peri-apocalyptic

comparativemore peri-apocalyptic
superlativemost peri-apocalyptic
alternative formperiapocalyptic

Origin of peri-apocalyptic

From peri- (“near”) + apocalyptic.

Questions about peri-apocalyptic

What does peri-apocalyptic mean?
Peri-apocalyptic means during an apocalypse.
What part of speech is peri-apocalyptic?
Peri-apocalyptic is an adjective.

Words near peri-apocalyptic in the dictionary

  1. perhydroxyl
  2. perhydroxyls
  3. peri
  4. peri'a
  5. peri-
  6. peri-apocalyptic
  7. peri-articularly
  8. peri-implantitis
  9. peri-lingual deafness
  10. peri-mortem
  11. peri-op

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