postprandial
/ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
After a meal, especially after dinner.
Example Sentences
- "postprandial somnolence"
- "As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous."
- "The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence."
- "Patients who demonstrate significant insulin resistance at diagnosis and require insulin therapy may alternate preprandial and postprandial evaluations to enable more rapid optimization of control by using an additional supplemental insulin sliding scale as needed to cover preprandial hyperglycaemia (>100 ml per dl)[…]."
- "The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders."
- "Intimate, discreet and modestly quite proud of itself, it [the book] has the tone of the postprandial speech that Bannister gave at Pembroke College to 120 of his friends, looking over his life, like the portrait on the panelled walls of himself as Master."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English prandial English postprandial From post- + prandial.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/
- British English: /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/