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unpostmodern

unpostmodern adjective: not postmodern.

Adjective

unpostmodern (comparative more unpostmodern, superlative most unpostmodern)

  1. Not postmodern.
    • It reads as a manifesto of sorts, a way for the author to assert his right to roam outside his ethnicity, and to justify the rest of his collection, which neurotically avoids the “Vietnamese thing,” taking the reader around the world in 80 days, with narrators of all ages and genders, before coming...2008 June 8, Hari Kunzru, “Outside Ethnicity”, in New York Times

Forms of unpostmodern

comparativemore unpostmodern
superlativemost unpostmodern

Origin of unpostmodern

From un- + postmodern.

Questions about unpostmodern

What does unpostmodern mean?
Unpostmodern means not postmodern.
What part of speech is unpostmodern?
Unpostmodern is an adjective.

Words near unpostmodern in the dictionary

  1. unpost
  2. unposted
  3. unpostered
  4. unposting
  5. unpostmarked
  6. unpostmodern
  7. unpostponable
  8. unpostponed
  9. unposts
  10. unpostulated
  11. unpot

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