postseasonal

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ seasonal or postseason +‎ -al.

Adjective

postseasonal (not comparable)

1. After a season (such as a holiday season, hunting season, flu season, etc.)
   • 1975, French Keller Hansel, Allergy and Immunity in Otolaryngology:, page 61:

     Atmospheric mold sensitivity may prolong postseasonal ragweed symptoms until frost.

   • 1987, David Quentin Voigt, Baseball, page 342:

     Then, for a third time in postseasonal play , the Dodgers rose from the dead ; after snatching three single - run victories , the Dodgers buried the Yanks 9-2 before a shocked Yankee Stadium crowd.

   • 2002, Carol L. Schroeder, Specialty Shop Retailing, page 96:

     But few small shops have the traffic to ensure that all of the postseasonal merchandise is sold within a few days of a holiday.

   • 2017, Scott Johnson, Heartstrings in B-Flat Minor:

     An unwanted distraction looms darkly on the horizon, a postseasonal hurricane.

2. Outdated; based on the culture of an earlier time.
   • 2001, Pierre Nora, Rethinking France: Legacies, page 317:

     "One is all the more delighted," he writes in a note, "to revel in these postseasonal rarities which have the flavor of a second coming, and a mystery."

   • 2009, William Strauss, Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning, page 310:

     Nearly every static ideology is likely to advance in one turning per saeculum (when what it offers is preseasonal and useful) and retreat in another (when what it offers is postseasonal and harmful).

   • 2019, Darius Sollohub, Millennials in Architecture, page 94:

     Otherwise one falls prey to being "postseasonal,” or on the wrong side of history.