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postracial

postracial adjective: no longer bound by racial divisions.

Adjective

postracial (not comparable)

  1. No longer bound by racial divisions.
    • The country is entering a postracial era.
    • (Tracy Morgan was more irreverent: while accepting the Golden Globe on behalf of “30 Rock,” he announced he was now the face of postracial America.)2009 January 11, Alessandra Stanley, “Back in Business, Tears and Thanks Included”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021

Forms of postracial

alternative formpost-racial

Origin of postracial

From post- + racial.

Questions about postracial

What does postracial mean?
Postracial means no longer bound by racial divisions.
What part of speech is postracial?
Postracial is an adjective.

Words near postracial in the dictionary

  1. postquestionnaire
  2. postquestionnaires
  3. postquranic
  4. postrace
  5. postrachitic
  6. postracial
  7. postraciality
  8. postracially
  9. postracism
  10. postracist
  11. postradiation

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