Synonyms of postdate

postdate

verb

ˌpōs(t)-ˈdāt 

as in to follow

to come after in time

the inscription at the base actually postdates the statue itself by a number of years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• follow
• replace
• succeed
• supersede
• supervene
• supplant
• displace
• ensue

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• precede
• predate
• antedate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of postdate

So the key activities both predate and postdate the J.C.P.O.A., although Iran was technically in non-compliance the entire time for failing to declare the materials. —Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 22 June 2025

Ranging in age from 150 to nearly 5,000 years, varying in length from 7 to 36 feet, many canoes postdate the arrival of Europeans. —Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024

Horn had exited the public eye in 2015 following a stroke that postdated a career spent creating a multifaceted oeuvre that seethed with energy. —News Desk, Artforum, 10 Sep. 2024

Imagine an English literature course that included no books written after 1600; a philosophy syllabus designed on the assumption that all philosophers after David Hume were second-rate; an archaeology professor who refused to teach anything postdating the Lower Paleolithic. —Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024

Though different in form, these two venerable objects share visual features, not only with each other but with images that long preceded and postdated them. —Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023