Overdue vs Postdate - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between overdue and postdate

is that overdue is late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need while postdate is postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

As a verb postdate is

to occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.

overdue

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.

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postdate

English

Verb

(postdat)

To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time

To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date

to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made

To affix a date to after the event.

Antonyms

(both senses) predate

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

* Fuller

Of these [predictions] some were postdate , cunningly made after the thing came to pass.

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