Synonyms of second thought

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.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• doubt
• arrière-pensée
• hesitation
• wabbling
• reconsideration
• vacillation
• pause
• delay
• indecision
• wavering
• misgiving
• hesitancy
• faltering
• wobbling
• irresolution
• waiting
• hesitance
• retreat
• consideration
• fence-sitting
• procrastination
• uncertainty
• debate
• shilly-shallying
• shilly-shally
• indetermination
• hawing
• reservation
• deliberation
• indecisiveness
• incertitude
• uncertainness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resolution
• determination
• confidence
• certainty
• firmness
• certitude
• readiness
• eagerness
• decisiveness
• sureness
• alacrity
• resoluteness

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of second thought

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

Would Daenerys Targaryen have lit that place up without a second thought? —Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2022