SECOND THOUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second thought mean? 

• SECOND THOUGHT (noun)
  The noun SECOND THOUGHT has 1 sense:

1. thinking again about a choice previously made

  Familiarity information: SECOND THOUGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND THOUGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thinking again about a choice previously made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

afterthought; reconsideration; rethink; second thought

Context example:

he had second thoughts about his purchase

Hypernyms ("second thought" is a kind of...):

change of mind; flip-flop; reversal; turnabout; turnaround (a decision to reverse an earlier decision)

 Context examples 

But now it was not provocative of a second thought.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then, as a second thought, why should she come at all?

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

Martin did not require a second thought to discover the author.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On second thought he concluded that he had been wrong about the speed with which things found their way into newspaper columns.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was a line that a week before he would not have favored with a second thought—"God's own mad lover dying on a kiss"; but now it was ever insistent in his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)