Knowledge which arrives after it might have. Seeing something clearly, once it has passed. Understanding everything just a bit too late.
The opposite of precognitive.
The opposite of precognitive.
He knew the answer he should have given in the job interview, saw why Dianah had left him for the plumber, understood that the X-Ray Specs ad was probably bogus, and as always, his understanding was postcognitive.
by Monkey's Dad March 03, 2020
He was their new neighbor, so comprehensively offensive to everybody that within a couple of weeks of his arrival he was a laughing stock. No one wanted him there. No one was speaking to him, or ever would. He had trained hard to become what he was - impeccably ill-mannered. It was a talent given to few.
by Monkey's Dad May 11, 2021
Amy Coney Barrett's self-characterization when asked her views on climate change, which she describes as 'controversial' when it is a settled matter globally among those who are indeed scientists.
"Do you believe that climate change is happening and threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink?" Kamala Harris asked.
"I will not express a view on a matter of public policy... that is politically controversial" Judge Barrett answered. "I am not a scientist."
"I will not express a view on a matter of public policy... that is politically controversial" Judge Barrett answered. "I am not a scientist."
by Monkey's Dad October 16, 2020
His trashionalization for demolishing her argument was easy. Family separation at the border was inhumane, and everyone else at the table knew it.
by Monkey's Dad March 07, 2020
She struggled to understand how Andrew Cuomo was being classed alongside R. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein. When old grab-em-by-the-pussy-Trump had been given a pass, for God's sake??!! She wondered whether she and her friends had arrived at their #MehToo moment.
by Monkey's Dad March 02, 2021
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. Would you like me to repeat the words in random, alphabetical or reverse order? I'll take the aggregate letters of those words and arrange them into a palindrome, after translating them into Chinese, a language I speak better than Xi Ping Jong by the way. Dementia! I'm more fully mented than any man, woman, camera, tv or person on the planet, twice my age, particularly that deranged loser... the Dementiacratic candidate... his name'll come to me...
by Monkey's Dad October 23, 2020
The tags which mysteriously no longer appear under definitions and usage, on Urban Dictionary entries.
He looked at his hundreds of long-standing definitions. "Where are my tags?" he asked. #tags? #what tags? he answered himself. "There were never any tags on Urban Dictionary. You must have been dreaming."
by Monkey's Dad August 02, 2020