postapocalyptic

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ apocalyptic.

Adjective

postapocalyptic (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after an apocalypse or catastrophic event.
    The novel dealt with life in a postapocalyptic France.
    • 2025 May 5, Spencer Kornhaber, “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?”, in The Atlantic[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 May 2025:
      Now she’s been spending her days hanging out at KMUN, learning about the seemingly outmoded technology of terrestrial radio, which she thinks will gain a kind of “postapocalyptic” usefulness to humanity as the internet is overrun with AI slop.