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afterthought Noun 1. something thought of after the opportunity to use it has passed 2. an addition to something already completed
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Translations afterthought [ˈɑːftəθɔːt] after n as an afterthought → nachträglich; I had an afterthought after → mir ist noch etwas eingefallen How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It was an afterthought, and was begun without a plan. Somewhere out of the ruck of those warring races had emerged Billy's ancestors, and hers, was her afterthought, as she closed the book and put it back in the drawer. {107} I suppose the passage within brackets to have been an afterthought but to have been written by the same hand as the rest of the poem. |
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