postmortem

1. 1.

   occurring or done after death

   “postmortem changes”

   “a postmortem examination to determine cause of death”

   “postmortal wounds”

   Synonymspostmortal

   Antonymsantemortem
2. 2.

   after death or after an event

   “a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death”

   “the postmortem discussion of the President's TV address”

   Similarsucceeding

Other forms of postmortem

plural

postmortems·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about postmortem

What does postmortem mean?

postmortem means "discussion of an event after it has occurred". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in postmortem?

postmortem has 3 syllables: post-mor-tem. The stress falls on "mor". In IPA it is /ˌpoʊstˈmɔɹtɛm/.

What is another word for postmortem?

Close synonyms include post-mortem, autopsy, necropsy, post-mortem, PM. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of postmortem?

The recorded antonyms are antemortem.

Is postmortem a common word?

postmortem is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with postmortem?

1 word rhymes with postmortem. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.