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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

... assured him that she did live there, and by a sudden afterthought asked him to come in. It would soon get a light, it said: but the night being wet, mother had not thought it worth while to trim the ...

— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy

... to our camp, where I found Tota crying because she had woke to find herself alone. Then we ate a little food and prepared to start. First we divided such articles as we must take with us into two equal parts, rejecting everything that we could possibly do without. Then, by an afterthought, we filled our water-bottles, though at the time I was rather against doing so, because of the extra weight. But Indaba-zimbi overruled me in the matter, fortunately for all three of us. I settled to look after Tota for the first march, and to give the elephant gun to Indaba-zimbi. ...

— Allan's Wife • H. Rider Haggard

... It must make you terribly unhappy." Morrow paused, and then added, as if in afterthought: "Perhaps when we tell your father that we care for each other, that when I have proved myself you are going to be my wife, he may confide in me—that is, if he is willing to give you to me. You know, dear, it is easier ...

— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

... the same in the later Homeric cycle—the heroes of the Iliad perish by ill-fated deaths. And even Ulysses, after his return to Ithaca, sets sail again to Thesprotia, and finally falls by the hand of his own son. But in India and Greece alike this is an afterthought of a self-conscious time, which has been subsequently added to cast a gloom on the strong ...

— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... of Barlow against myself and all the good people of the town? Will you cheat Craney of the price of his road in case he ever comes back? Is this duty? I tell you, no!" And in a flash of afterthought: "The wise old woman herself would cry 'No' from the grave of her. I tell you as one who knows. For she was Regan's mother, and her message of the things she saw beyond the day's work ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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