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post-literate

post-literate is the alternative form of postliterate.

Meaning of postliterate

Adjective

postliterate (not comparable)

  1. After the decline of literacy.
    • Those who bemoan the self-absorption of the postliterate generation will be happy to know that before the self-indulgent, amateurish blog there was the self-indulgent, amateurish log.2008 January 20, David Kirby, “Pas de Deux”, in New York Times

Questions about post-literate

What is post-literate the alternative form of?
Post-literate is the alternative form of postliterate.

Words near post-literate in the dictionary

  1. post-liberal
  2. post-liberalism
  3. post-liberals
  4. post-lingual deafness
  5. post-literacy
  6. post-literate
  7. post-marriage
  8. post-Marxism
  9. post-Marxist
  10. post-Marxists
  11. post-match

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