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Synonyms for hindsight
ˈhaɪndˌsaɪthind·sight

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  1. hindsightnoun

    Antonyms:
    foresight

  2. hindsightnoun

    When you read Seven Little Rabbits at age 6 and read it again 15 years later, the hindsight you've developed in the time between will make you look at and think of the book much differently than you did the first time!

    Antonyms:
    foresight

  3. hindsightnoun

    Antonyms:
    foresight

Princeton's WordNet

  1. hindsightnoun

    understanding the nature of an event after it has happened

    "hindsight is always better than foresight"

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. recollection

    you're recollecting in hindsight

    Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019  

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hindsight":

    retrospective, posteriori, retrospect, afterthought

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#16400retrospective
#26262retrospect
#31922hindsight
#54077afterthought
#74612posteriori

How to use hindsight in a sentence?

  1. Steve Harvey:

    I'm in the hallway, I'm getting ambushed by people with friends that come to the show and having me sign this and do this. I just said, 'Wait a minute,' and in hindsight, I probably should've handled it a little bit differently.

  2. Roger Federer:

    It was much better for me to look forward to the rest of the season, rest of my life, really, i didn't want to have setback after setback and injure Roger Federer maybe further. In hindsight, that was definitely the right decision.

  3. Amanda Johnson:

    I honestly think he did as good a job as he could have hindsight is always 2020. ... Personally, I don't think he did great, but I don't think he did bad. I think he did what he could.

  4. Steven McCraw:

    From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. Period. There's no excuse for that.

  5. Manoah Esipisu:

    With the benefit of hindsight, you can always say things could have been done better.


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