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.

Related Words

• doubt
• arrière-pensée
• hesitation
• 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

Dissimilar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of second thought

Subscriptions like Billie cover this for you without a second thought. — Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2022

In America, the allure of material comfort is accepted without a second thought. — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022

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

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