SECOND THOUGHT Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

second thought

noun

as in doubt

a feeling of guilt, doubt, worry, etc., that you have after you have decided to do something or after something has happened After she agreed to lend him the money, she had second thoughts. She was having second thoughts about getting married.

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Recent Examples of second thought And then a second thought immediately popped into his head. —

oregonlive, 3 May 2022 My second thought, as the slap hit home, was: Why did nobody think of this before? —

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022 In the past, Fischer, 40, who lives in Miami Beach, Fla., wouldn’t have given his mild cold symptoms a second thought. —

Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021 As the existing workforce exits the industry and new technological innovation changes how projects are imagined and built, the industry has a unique opportunity to attract a new type of worker who may never have given construction a second thought. —

Mark Schwartz, Forbes, 17 May 2021 See All Example Sentences for second thought

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Noun

Morgan has found a lot of success wheeling-and-dealing in his first two drafts in the general manager seat, no doubt.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
That was compounded by doubts, both within the club and among those close to the player, over his long-term future — largely due to those injury problems.

— Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026