Crossword-Solution: POSTERIOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Posterior | a. | Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. |
| Posterior | a. | Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior. |
| Posterior | a. | At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal. |
| Posterior | a. | On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POSTERIOR | anagram | REPOSITOR |
We have 44 clues for the answer “POSTERIOR”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | 1 answer |
| You sit on it | 1 answer |
| POPLITEAL part of knee | 1 answer |
| Further back in position | 1 answer |
| Backward South American city captured by Bill (9) | 1 answer |
| BACK tooth | 2 answers |
| Later in time | 2 answers |
| BEHIND the body | 5 answers |
| TOWARD the back | 8 answers |
| postliminary | 10 answers |
| dorsal | 10 answers |
| AFTERWHILE | 10 answers |
| subsequential | 10 answers |
| latterly | 10 answers |
| haunches | 12 answers |
| Hind | 12 answers |
| hind end | 14 answers |
| Derrière | 15 answers |
| coming after | 15 answers |
| tomorrow | 16 answers |
| By and by | 19 answers |
| hindmost | 20 answers |
| Fanny | 21 answers |
| in back of | 22 answers |
| rear end | 23 answers |
| at the back | 24 answers |
| Pursuing | 25 answers |
| Backside | 26 answers |
| Keister | 28 answers |
| sequential | 28 answers |
| Hindquarters | 28 answers |
| Haunch | 31 answers |
| fundament | 31 answers |
| rump | 37 answers |
| buttocks | 38 answers |
| Ensuing | 41 answers |
| Anon | 43 answers |
| subsequent | 44 answers |
| Soon | 48 answers |
| Rear | 54 answers |
| Next | 61 answers |
| AFTER ___ | 66 answers |
| "Later!" | 76 answers |
| Behind | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POSTERIOR (5)
The founders of the greater part of the families which now compose the aristocracy of Salem might here be traced, from the petty and obscure beginnings of their traffic, at periods generally much posterior to the Revolution, upward to what their children look upon as long-established rank.
The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward.
Osbourne tells me they are to be reckoned by the dozen; and as the roads have been made long posterior to their erection, perhaps to their desertion, and must simply be regarded as lines drawn at random through the bush, the forest on either hand must be equally filled with these survivals: the gravestones of whole families.
Nick did Baldoon’s posterior right deride, And, as first substitute, did seize the bride; Whate’er he to his mistress did or said, He threw the bridegroom from the nuptial bed, Into the chimney did so his rival maul, His bruised bones ne’er were cured but by the fall.
Gordon speaks of a curious case in a negress, six months pregnant, in which an extrauterine fetus passed down from the posterior culdesac and occluded the uterus.
Quotes with POSTERIOR (3)
In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident than *cogito ergo sum*. Naturally, *est* here does not mean existence or reality but being of whatever kind and form, including even ideal being, fictive being, conscious-being [*Bewusst-Sein*], etc. However, we must go even beyond this thesis of Leibniz. The correlate of the act of *cogitatio* is not, as Leibniz said, being simply, but only that type of being we call "objecti…
We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if not homogeneous, whether its various forms are different specifically or generically; up to the present time those who have discussed and investigated soul seem to have confined themselves to the human soul. We must be careful not to ignore the question whether soul can be defined in a single account, as is the case with animal, or whether we must not g…
A story from beginning to end that might entertain, teach, or simply bore your listener. It's all in the delivery, my dear." He got a smug look on his face as he scooted his posterior deeper into the chair and took his pipe between his teeth. "I'm just better at it than most.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2017).