Afterthought is an English word with synonyms like reconsideration or add-on. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Afterthought meaning
- A reflection after an act; a later or subsequent thought, action, or expedient.
- Something additional to the original plan or concept.
Synonyms of Afterthought
Using Afterthought
- The main meaning on this page is: A reflection after an act; a later or subsequent thought, action, or expedient. | Something additional to the original plan or concept.
- Useful related words include: reconsideration, add-on, addition, turnaround.
- In the example corpus, afterthought often appears in combinations such as: an afterthought, afterthought in, afterthought for.
Context around Afterthought
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Afterthought
- In this selection, "afterthought" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stupid, compared, early and something stand out and add context to how "afterthought" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include like an afterthought and a stupid afterthought but returned. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "afterthought" sits close to words such as adaptability, alam and arable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with afterthought
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Not as an afterthought. (4 words)
He was an afterthought for many teams already. (8 words)
But Kelce is currently an afterthought, leaving Mahomes sort of on his own. (13 words)
For me, it was almost an afterthought that they were musically talented, something they proved as they honed their skills as performers during the reality show’s weekly live performances, after being put together as a group by Simon Cowell. (40 words)
But aside from these sweet and small moments peppered throughout the film, and a charming tease toward the end of Emily finally putting quill to paper, the "writing" of it all felt a bit like an afterthought. (37 words)
This promotion is a chance to remind people that Cointreau is an essential part of the margarita, and that the orange liqueur shouldn’t be an afterthought or forgotten in the making of one. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
As an afterthought, it does offer the hope that they can turn things around and profit from an expanding industry.
But aside from these sweet and small moments peppered throughout the film, and a charming tease toward the end of Emily finally putting quill to paper, the "writing" of it all felt a bit like an afterthought.
He was an afterthought for many teams already.
I do not base my thesis on an expectation that interest rates will fall; it was more like an afterthought I felt I should share.
Laser weapons felt much more like an afterthought than a fully-fledged and thought out part of the game.
Mr Jones said George Andrews stole the money as a “stupid afterthought” but returned it at his first hearing.
Not as an afterthought.
Sadly, Haru can feel like an afterthought compared to the other characters due to her limited appearances.
Scherzer is somewhat of an afterthought early, but he’s very much in the running at +1300, which is an excellent value price.
She said she’s noticed with a lot of brands, that the T-shirt is the afterthought.
These mechanics become an afterthought in the anime, which is inevitably too short to give The Executioner and Her Way of Life the nuance that makes the light novels such an engrossing read.
This promotion is a chance to remind people that Cointreau is an essential part of the margarita, and that the orange liqueur shouldn’t be an afterthought or forgotten in the making of one.
As military use of AI becomes more common, ethical, moral and legal concerns have largely been an afterthought.
But for many Catholics today, it’s more of an afterthought: something we grudgingly do on Good Friday, perhaps on Ash Wednesday if we remember it.
But Kelce is currently an afterthought, leaving Mahomes sort of on his own.
For me, it was almost an afterthought that they were musically talented, something they proved as they honed their skills as performers during the reality show’s weekly live performances, after being put together as a group by Simon Cowell.
Going into the vastness of space to meet your makers only to find out that your creator views you as an afterthought at best and outright hostility at worst, is an existential terror.
His relationship with boyfriend Keith (Daniel Monks) — the only queer relationship in the movie — also gets the least airtime, feeling more like an afterthought.
HRW concluded that killing civilians and taking hostages were the “central aims” of the planned attack “not an afterthought, a plan gone awry or isolated acts”.
I hope everyone cares about Congressional races in places like Modesto, Irvine and Hanford because those races are relegating important issues like rampant retail theft and the fentanyl epidemic to an afterthought.
Common combinations with afterthought
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an afterthought 111×
- afterthought in 9×
- afterthought for 7×
- afterthought to 6×
- afterthought and 5×
- afterthought it 4×
- afterthought but 4×
- the afterthought 4×
- afterthought at 4×
- afterthought compared 3×