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postseasonal

postseasonal adjective: after a season (such as a holiday season, hunting season, flu season, etc.).

Adjective

postseasonal (not comparable)

  1. After a season (such as a holiday season, hunting season, flu season, etc.)
    • Atmospheric mold sensitivity may prolong postseasonal ragweed symptoms until frost.1975, French Keller Hansel, Allergy and Immunity in Otolaryngology:, page 61
    • Then, for a third time in postseasonal play , the Dodgers rose from the dead ; after snatching three single - run victories , the Dodgers buried the Yanks 9-2 before a shocked Yankee Stadium crowd.1987, David Quentin Voigt, Baseball, page 342
  2. Outdated; based on the culture of an earlier time.
    • "One is all the more delighted," he writes in a note, "to revel in these postseasonal rarities which have the flavor of a second coming, and a mystery."2001, Pierre Nora, Rethinking France: Legacies, page 317
    • Nearly every static ideology is likely to advance in one turning per saeculum (when what it offers is preseasonal and useful) and retreat in another (when what it offers is postseasonal and harmful).2009, William Strauss, Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning, page 310

Examples of postseasonal in a sentence

  • But few small shops have the traffic to ensure that all of the postseasonal merchandise is sold within a few days of a holiday.2002, Carol L. Schroeder, Specialty Shop Retailing, page 96:
  • An unwanted distraction looms darkly on the horizon, a postseasonal hurricane.2017, Scott Johnson, Heartstrings in B-Flat Minor:
  • Otherwise one falls prey to being "postseasonal,” or on the wrong side of history.2019, Darius Sollohub, Millennials in Architecture, page 94:

Origin of postseasonal

From post- + seasonal or postseason + -al.

Questions about postseasonal

What does postseasonal mean?
Postseasonal means after a season (such as a holiday season, hunting season, flu season, etc.).
How do you use postseasonal in a sentence?
But few small shops have the traffic to ensure that all of the postseasonal merchandise is sold within a few days of a holiday.
What part of speech is postseasonal?
Postseasonal is an adjective.

Words near postseasonal in the dictionary

  1. postscriptums
  2. postscutella
  3. postscutellar
  4. postscutellum
  5. postseason
  6. postseasonal
  7. postseasons
  8. postsecondary
  9. postsecondary school
  10. postsecondary schools
  11. postsecretory

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