Posterior: meaning, example and synonyms
Posterioradj. Coming later in time or order; also, located behind or at the back.
Example
The scribe's notes in the margin are clearly posterior to the original text, written in a different ink some fifty years after the manuscript was copied.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Synonyms
- later, subsequent, following, rear
- Antonyms
- prior, earlier, preceding, anterior
- Memory tip
- post ("after") + -erior: like postscript, it comes after.
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Check yourself: Posterior in context
Because the coins in the upper layer are ______ to those in the lower layer, archaeologists concluded that the building was repaired after the original city was abandoned.
Answer: posterior. Coins in the upper layer came later than those beneath them. Mandatory, fraudulent and rudimentary don't describe order in time.
The chapter on the war's aftermath is ______ to the main narrative, added by the author in a revised edition a decade later.
Answer: posterior. A chapter added ten years later comes after the original text. Palpable, orthodox and contingent don't mean later in time.