posterior
/pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/US/poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
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posterior adjective: relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
Adjective
posterior (comparative more posterior, superlative most posterior)
Noun
posterior (plural posteriors)
- The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.
- Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52
- Synonyms:
- 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass, ass cheeks, back, backside, batty, behind, blessed assurance
- The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).
- Synonyms:
- posterior probability
- Antonyms:
- prior, prior probability
posterior meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
posterior in Hindi
- located towards the rear
- पीछे pīche
- buttocks
- नितंब nitamb
posterior in Tamil
- பின்பக்கத்திய, பிற்பக்கமான, பின், பின் பக்கம், பின்னால், பின்புறம்
posterior in Urdu
- posterior, subsequent
- بعد ba'd
posterior in Bengali
- পিছনের দিকে থাকে এমন, পশ্চাতদেশ
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- posterior in Malayalam
- പിന്നിലുള്ള, പുറകിലുള്ള, പശ്ചാത്, പാശ്ചാത്യ
- posterior in Kannada
- ಹಿಂಭಾಗ, ಪಿರ್ರೆ, ಅಂಡು, ನಿತಂಬ
- posterior in Sanskrit
- अपर ápara, अवर ávara
- posterior in Tagalog
- hulihan
- posterior in Arabic
- خَلْفِيّ ḵalfiyy
Examples of posterior in a sentence
- Lower jaw with several rows at anterior, outer row enlarged, posterior teeth larger but not caninoid.
- Posterior to this, the precranial cavity first appears as a dorsal and a ventral opening.
- Gonad didelphic, amphidelphic; anterior branch on the right of intestine, but posterior arm to the left.
Synonyms of posterior
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Antonyms
Forms of posterior
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more posterior |
| superlative | most posterior |
| alternative form | posteriour |
| Noun | |
| plural | posteriors |
Origin of posterior
Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).
Words formed from posterior
- anteroposterior
- apicoposterior
- centroposterior
- distoposterior
- dorsoposterior
- duplicitas posterior
- frontoposterior
- inferoposterior
- lateroposterior
- long posterior ciliary artery
- medioposterior
- mentoposterior
- mesioposterior
- midposterior
- nonposterior
- occipitoposterior
- posterior auricular artery
- posterior auricular muscle
- posterior cerebral artery
- posterior chamber
- posterior cingulate cortex
- posterior communicating artery
- posterior cricoarytenoid muscle
- posterior cruciate ligament
- posterior ethmoidal artery
- posterior inferior cerebellar artery
- posteriorisation
- posterioristic
- posteriority
- posteriorization
- posteriorize
- posteriorly
- posterior mal
- posterior malleolus
- posteriormost
- posterior naris
- posteriorness
- posterior probability
- posterior scalene muscle
- posterior spinal artery
- posterior superior alveolar artery
- posterior triangle
- posteriorward
- postero-
- posterio-
- proximoposterior
- sacroposterior
- short posterior ciliary artery
- sinistroposterior
- subposterior
- superoposterior
- ventroposterior
Phrases with posterior
Words that rhyme with posterior
- superior
- inferior
- anterior
- ulterior
- exterior
- interior
- anteroposterior
- dorsoposterior
- posteroanterior
- superoinferior
- anteroinferior
- anterosuperior
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- apicoposterior
- centroanterior
- centroposterior
- citerior
- distoanterior
- distoposterior
- dorsoanterior
- frontoposterior
- Homo Superior
- inferoanterior
- inferoposterior
- lateroanterior
- lateroinferior
- lateroposterior
- laterosuperior
- medioposterior
- mediosuperior
- mentoanterior
- mentoposterior
- mesioposterior
- mesoanterior
- midanterior
- midposterior
- noninferior
- nonposterior
- nonsuperior
- occipitoanterior
- occipitoposterior
- posteroinferior
- posterosuperior
- proximoposterior
- sacroanterior
- sacroposterior
- sinistroposterior
- subanterior
- subposterior
- superoanterior
- superoposterior
- temporosuperior
- ventroanterior
- ventroposterior
Questions about posterior
- What does posterior mean?
- Posterior means relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
- What is posterior in Hindi?
- Posterior in Hindi is पीछे (pīche), नितंब (nitamb). See Posterior meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is posterior?
- Posterior can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce posterior?
- Posterior is pronounced /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ (UK).
Words near posterior in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: posterior (page history and authors); posterior (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بعد (Urdu) (page history and authors); posterior (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); posterior (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); posterior (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अपर (Sanskrit) (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.
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