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postprandial

Syllables: post·prand·ialUK/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl//ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/

postprandial adjective: after a meal, especially after dinner.

Adjective

postprandial (not comparable)

  1. After a meal, especially after dinner.
    • postprandial somnolence
    • As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.1894, George Augustus Sala, “The Real Thackeray”, in Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known […], volume I, London; Paris: Cassell and Company […], →OCLC, page 32
    Synonyms:
    postcibal, postmeal

postprandial meaning in Tamil and Kannada

postprandial in Tamil

உணவுக்குப் பின், புசிப்புப்பின்

postprandial in Kannada

ಊಟದಬಳಿಕ, ಊಟದನಂತರ, ಭೋಜನ ತರುವಾಯದ, ಭೋಜನಾ ನಂತರದ

Examples of postprandial in a sentence

  • There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 135:
  • The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.2010, Johannes Zschocke, “Function Tests”, in Georg F. Hoffmann, Johannes Zschocke, William L[eo] Nyhan, editors, Inherited Metabolic...
  • But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts.2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in New York Times:

Synonyms of postprandial

Antonyms

Forms of postprandial

alternative formpost-prandial

Origin of postprandial

From post- + prandial.

Words formed from postprandial

Phrases with postprandial

Questions about postprandial

What does postprandial mean?
Postprandial means after a meal, especially after dinner.
What is postprandial in Tamil?
Postprandial in Tamil is உணவுக்குப் பின், புசிப்புப்பின். See Postprandial meaning in Tamil.
How do you use postprandial in a sentence?
There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.
What part of speech is postprandial?
Postprandial is an adjective.
How do you pronounce postprandial?
Postprandial is pronounced /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/ (UK).

Words near postprandial in the dictionary

  1. postpostmodernism
  2. postpostscript
  3. postpotential
  4. postpotentials
  5. postpractice
  6. postprandial
  7. postprandial dip
  8. postprandial dips
  9. postprandially
  10. postprecipitation
  11. postprecipitations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postprandial (page history and authors); postprandial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); postprandial (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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