Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An idea, response, or explanation that occurs to one after an event or decision.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A later or second thought.
- n. Reflection after an act; some consideration that occurs to one's mind too late, or after the performance of the act to which it refers.
Wiktionary
- n. A reflection after an act; a later or subsequent thought, action, or expedient.
- n. Something additional to the original plan or concept.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought.
- n. an action taken after another action and related to the first action, which would normally or optimally be done along with the first action; -- .
- n. a feature or part added to a device, not thought of in its original design.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an addition that was not included in the original plan
- n. thinking again about a choice previously made
Examples
“December 4th, 2005 at 8: 47 pm wwallace says: afterthought is corrupt and incompetent.”
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“While I wouldn`t use the word afterthought, I was keen to see the media coverage associated with the launch.”
“I don’t read a lot of books (get your whips out), but I did spend Memorial Day weekend (how appropriate, in afterthought) this year emotionally drained as I slogged through the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men).”
“Blind citizens will not allow themselves to be thought of as a squeezed-in afterthought.”
“While I wouldn ` t use the word afterthought, I was keen to see the media coverage associated with the launch.”
“A little manic-depressive, maybe," he admitted in afterthought.”
“If Web Notes feels like an afterthought, that is because it is.”
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“The conception of the "drives," which ultimately brought the peace movement to a head, was an afterthought, which is commonly attributed in South Africa to the sagacity of that intrepid and versatile young cavalry leader, Colonel”
“It's like a big show, and the game is an afterthought, which is totally ESPN.”
“I am actually kind of ashamed to say that dessert started out as a major fail, then fell into the "afterthought" category of my daily activities.”
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Beautiful Compound Words
aftermath, afterthought, butterfly, campfire, colorblind, backhand, crossword, cupcake, dollhouse, drawbridge, dreadlock, dreamscape and 73 more...
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Originventory
Beformitables; previousness, past-referents, and origins.
erstwhile, formication, quondam, atavistic, umquhile, yestreen, hesternal, hesternopothia, pridian, ere, retrophilia, ante mortem and 72 more...
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