Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.
Used in a Sentence
post-apocalyptic
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for post-apocalyptic.
Editorial note
The freeways will look like some post-apocalyptic wasteland with rusted eroded signs hanging lopsided off of weathered poles.
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Quick take
Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.
Meaning at a glance
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After the apocalypse.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for post-apocalyptic.
adjective
Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.
adjective
After the apocalypse.
Example sentences
The freeways will look like some post-apocalyptic wasteland with rusted eroded signs hanging lopsided off of weathered poles.
Wake me up when they invent a virtual world that's more like Paris than post-apocalyptic Las Vegas.
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle has a pretty good take on the post-apocalyptic chaos & breakdown in society that will likely ensue.
Wool - Hugh Howey Post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi at it's best.
It's fun to speculate, write country songs about, and produce post-apocalyptic movies around, but being seriously worried about it as a social issue is a little unrealistic.
If you do visit, it's an interesting post-apocalyptic world.
It is as if in some post-apocalyptic future, scholars would learn about the work of Newton and Einstein from surviving articles in Scientific American or New Scientist.
It has this post-apocalyptic feel to it.
Somalia being a post-apocalyptic wasteland qualifies as a mesofact[0], I guess.
Hell, in the Metro book/video game series which takes place in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, the units of currency are military grade, pre apocalypse, ammo and, at a lesser value, post-apocalyptic ammo.
Beyond the environmental and social impacts of continuing to use fossil fuels when alternatives exist, would (hypothetically) post-apocalyptic humanity be able to reboot civilization if all the easy fossil fuels have been mined?
Admittedly, some Amish communities do use diesel generators to power more conventional compressors, but I have a feeling that these would be easier to adapt to the posited post-apocalyptic wood-gas-fueled world.
Quote examples
Nuclear is carbon-neutral, it's about 1000x the energy density of combustion, have lifetimes of several generations, and (at least in the States) have security measures that would make it resilient to "post-apocalyptic" scenarios.
If the VCs weren't there, it'd be a third-rate city, and much of what the VCs are funding isn't even technology but the post-apocalyptic sort of "attempt to engage in one of the short-term natural monopolies that technology sometimes creates" gambits that bloom in the caldera of an imploded technology industry.
"much of what the VCs are funding isn't even technology but the post-apocalyptic sort of "attempt to engage in one of the short-term natural monopolies that technology sometimes creates" gambits that bloom in the caldera of an imploded technology industry" Much of what is funded has always been that.
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How do you use post-apocalyptic in a sentence?
The freeways will look like some post-apocalyptic wasteland with rusted eroded signs hanging lopsided off of weathered poles.
What does post-apocalyptic mean?
Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.
What part of speech is post-apocalyptic?
post-apocalyptic is commonly used as adjective.