post-mortem
/poʊstmˈɔɹtɛm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.16 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "As the physician can obtain the faculty of making correct diagnoses of obscure diseases only by carefully attending to ante-mortem symptoms and post-mortem examinations, so the engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types."
- "Halpin [Frayser]’s death and the post-mortem demoniacalness of the well-bred Southern woman, lops off the grafted branches of the human and cuts it down to that stump of itself which is primordial, persistent, unconscious animalism."