postprandial

1. 1.

   following a meal (especially dinner)

   “his postprandial cigar”

   “took a postprandial walk”

   Antonymspreprandial

Questions about postprandial

What does postprandial mean?

postprandial means "following a meal (especially dinner)".

How many syllables are in postprandial?

postprandial has 4 syllables and divides as post-pran-di-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of postprandial?

The recorded antonyms are preprandial.

Is postprandial a common word?

postprandial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.