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/ˈæftərθˌɑt/ /ˈæftərθˌɔt/ Listen

noun

Afterthought n.

Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought.

An action taken after another action and related to the first action, which would normally or optimally be done along with the first action; as, to do something as an afterthought.

A feature or part added to a device, not thought of in its original design.

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Etymology of 'Afterthought'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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