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Afterthought   /ˈæftərθˌɑt/  /ˈæftərθˌɔt/   Listen
Afterthought

noun
1.
Thinking again about a choice previously made.  Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought.
2.
An addition that was not included in the original plan.





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"Afterthought" Quotes from Famous Books



... handsome, and his piercing dark eyes, although they enhanced the smile that greeted my appearance at the instrument, seemed to search into my very soul and to hold me spellbound with mute challenge. Nor could I, upon afterthought, remember having shown the common ...
— Zarlah the Martian • R. Norman Grisewood
... head because you wouldn't promise me something I needed—that appointment for Hagley. What I said about Senators an' such was all wild words—nothin' in 'em. Why, how could there be, Senator?" This query was a happy afterthought which Sanders craftily suggested in a ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... of the elder's indignation and his really genuine alarm about the influences which surrounded his child, he had a prudent afterthought in the matter of her leaving the service of Mrs. Ward. It was difficult to get anything in Lockhaven for a young woman to do, and times were hard ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... exhibited their curious designs, spreading with square stitches, so to speak, like patterns for worsted work. At the base of the somber edifice a pretty little lodge, of the Renaissance, built as an afterthought, gave entrance to an exterior staircase going up along the wall diagonally to a sort of mirador, or overhanging look-out, in exquisite taste. Graceful little statues of Faith and Justice, ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume V (of X) • Various
... four attendants to the schooner, prepared to follow, then, with an afterthought, halted ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle


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