Word.ws English Dictionary

postantibiotic

postantibiotic adjective: following treatment with an antibiotic.

Adjective

postantibiotic (not comparable)

  1. Following treatment with an antibiotic

Forms of postantibiotic

alternative formpost-antibiotic

Origin of postantibiotic

From post- + antibiotic.

Questions about postantibiotic

What does postantibiotic mean?
Postantibiotic means following treatment with an antibiotic.
What part of speech is postantibiotic?
Postantibiotic is an adjective.

Words near postantibiotic in the dictionary

  1. postantennal
  2. postantennal organ
  3. postantennal organs
  4. postanthesis
  5. postanthetic
  6. postantibiotic
  7. postantifungal
  8. postanxiety
  9. postanæsthesia
  10. postaortic
  11. postapartheid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: postantibiotic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “postantibiotic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/postantibiotic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.