Postpone vs Postdate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between postpone and postdate

is that postpone is to delay or put off an event, appointment etc while postdate is to occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.

As an adjective postdate is

postdated; made or done after the date assigned.

postpone

English

Verb

(postpon)

To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

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Synonyms

* adjourn, defer, delay, forestay, procrastinate, put off, put on ice, stay, suspend

Antonyms

* advance * hasten * prepone (India )

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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