Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postfatory

/ˈpoʊstfətɔɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: postfa-to-ry
IPA: /ˈpoʊstfətɔɹi/

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Serving as an epilogue or appendix; conclusory, closing.

Formal

Example Sentences

"These prefatory and postfatory pages bristle with insights, but they unfortunately tend to be noisy and vituperative. At moments they also sound hasty and a bit "simplistes"."
"The text ofthe Gospels is in Rumanian, but the rubrics, and the lectionaries and other postfatory material are in Serbian Church Slavonic (with much morphological uncertainty in the colophon) showing Bulgarian influence."
"Closely connected to the epigrammatic form of entries in alba are poems that serve as prefatory or postfatory material of early modern prints. Harm-Jan van Dam dedicates his article to this kind of liminary poetry."

Etymology

From prefatory, with substitution of the prefix with post- to alter the sense.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈpoʊstfətɔɹi/
British English: /ˈpəʊstfət(ə)ɹi/

Usage

Formal

Questions

How do you pronounce postfatory?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpoʊstfətɔɹi/.
What does postfatory mean?: Serving as an epilogue or appendix; conclusory, closing.
Where does postfatory come from?: From prefatory, with substitution of the prefix with post- to alter the sense.

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