RECONSIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconsider mean? 

• RECONSIDER (verb)
  The verb RECONSIDER has 2 senses:

1. consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing

2. consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it

  Familiarity information: RECONSIDER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONSIDER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reconsider    ... he / she / it reconsiders   
Past simple: reconsidered   
Past participle: reconsidered   
-ing form: reconsidering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

Won't you reconsider your decision?

Hypernyms (to "reconsider" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Verb group:

reconsider (consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Derivation:

reconsideration (thinking again about a choice previously made)

reconsideration (a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "reconsider" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Verb group:

reconsider (consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing)

Domain category:

lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

If you become pregnant and want a baby, but it is a little too early, you might reconsider your stance.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Although used in clinical trials for treatment of human immunodeficiency (HIV), Lodenosine induces liver or kidney damage and its use has been reconsidered.

(Lodenosine, NCI Thesaurus)

When new facts come to our knowledge which cannot be covered by it, it will be time enough to reconsider it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With respect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frail canoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered that important business-point; and would beg to propose my notes of hand—drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amounts respectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying to such securities—at eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty months.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And with this pleasing anticipation, she sat down to reconsider the past, recall the words and endeavour to comprehend all the feelings of Edward; and, of course, to reflect on her own with discontent.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mars in your sign will give you unusually strong determination to get approvals, and if you get a no, you will have your case ready for why the person in charge should reconsider.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I can only claim the merit that I instantly reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not come either from the window or the door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)