Post-apocalyptic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    After the apocalypse.
  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.

    "Stephen King is an author of post-apocalyptic fiction."

Example

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"In a post-apocalyptic scenario, aliens have discovered Earth and made a museum of the humans that were wiped out by a cosmic collision with an asteroid to the planet."

Etymology

From post- + apocalyptic.

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