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postprandial
[ pohst-pran-dee-uhl ]
adjective
- after a meal, especially after dinner:
postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
postprandial
/ pəʊstˈprændɪəl /
adjective
- of or relating to the period immediately after lunch or dinner
a postprandial nap
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Other Words From
- post·prandi·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of postprandial1
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Example Sentences
Most will be too sleepy to wonder what’s happening inside their cells and nerves, or which enzymes and hormones control the biochemistry of postprandial sleepiness.
The postprandial moment has never struck me as a time for joe.
Cabinet Councils of "tabbies," assembling over their postprandial Bohea, declared they would none of him.
Like the burden of our sins, the postprandial odor of them must be sometimes intolerable.
None of them impressed me with a very high idea of English postprandial oratory.
The father alone did nothing, but still rested on his couch, perhaps indulging in a postprandial nap.
The wit and gaiety, the range and the emphasis of their postprandial conversation can be imagined.
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