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Definition: Hindsight |
HindsightNoun1. Understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; "hindisght is always better than foresight". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hindsight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judgment | Twenty-twenty hindsight; armchair general, monday morning quarterback. |
Untimeliness | Unpunctual; (late); too late for; premature; (early); too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-twenty hindsight. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hindsight |
| English words defined with "hindsight": secondguess. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | The only perfect science is hindsight. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hindsight (1999) Before Hindsight (1977) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Billy Wilder | Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
Guy Bellamy | Hindsight is an exact science. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | India | In hindsight, analysts now understand that due attention must be paid to power distribution as well as generation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hindsight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.26% of the time. "Hindsight" is used about 406 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.26% | 403 | 13,916 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.49% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 406 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hindsight": hindsight wisdom ♦ in hindsight ♦ with hindsight. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hindsight": hindsight-honest, hindsight-ometer. | |
Ending with "hindsight": statistically-improbable-in-a-direction-specified-without-hindsight. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hindsight | 38 |
hindsight 20 20 | 7 |
bias hindsight | 6 |
hindsight record | 5 |
archery hindsight | 3 |
hindsight john lyrics reuben | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hindsight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mend pas kuvendit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الإدراك المتأخر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | умуване след събитието, мерник (backsight, peep sight), закъсняла преценка на събитие. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpìtný pohled, pozdní poznání. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ادراک (Cognition, Cognizance, Impression, Notion, Perception, Realization, Scent, Understanding, Uptake), درک یافهم امری که واقع شده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jälkiviisaus (wisdom after the event). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sagesse rétrospective. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rücksicht (consideration, regard, respect, thoughtfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθυστεριμένη κατανόησισ, πίσω σκοπεύτρο όπλου, υστερινή γνώση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חכמ" לאחר מעש". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utólagos bölcsesség, utólagos előrelátás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | il senno. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 後知恵 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あとぢえ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | etterpåklokskap. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indsighthay obstáculo (balk, barrier, baulk, bunker, but, clog, cramp, difficulty, dike, dykes, handicap, holder, hurdle, impasse, impediment, jump, let, obstacle, obstruction, obstruction to justice, plummet, preventer, prevention, rub, screen, stop, trammels). (various references) взгляд в прошлое (flashback), непредусмотрительность (improvidence). (various references) nišan (backsight, bead, gunpoint, sight, target), kasno uviđanje. (various references) comprensión retrospectiva. (various references) efterklokhet (afterthought), efferklokhet. (various references) การเข้าใจถึงปัญหาหลังจากที่เหตุการ"์ไ"้เกิ"ขึ้นแล้ว. (various references) gez (backsight, notch), geç anlama (double take), önemini sonradan anlama. (various references) непредбачливість, приціл (backsight, bead, sight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hindsight": hindsights. (additional references) | |
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"Hindsight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: handlight, hindisght, hindsighters, hindsite, hinesight. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hindsight" (pronounced hī"ndsī't or hī"nsī't) |
| 3 | -s ī' t | andesite, anthracite, calcite, eyesight, foresight, granulocyte, insight, leukocyte, lymphocyte, magnesite, oversight, parasite, phagocyte, plebiscite, website. |
| 4 | -n s ī' t | insight. |
| 3 | -s ī' t | andesite, anthracite, calcite, eyesight, foresight, granulocyte, leukocyte, lymphocyte, magnesite, oversight, parasite, phagocyte, plebiscite, website. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-h-h-i-i-n-s-t" | |
-2 letters: dishing, hidings, histing, insight, shindig, tidings. | |
-3 letters: dights, digits, hiding, hights, nights, siding, siting, thighs, things, tiding. | |
-4 letters: dight, digit, dings, dints, highs, hight, hinds, hints, intis, nighs, night, nitid, sight, sting, thigh, thing, thins, tings. | |
-5 letters: digs, ding, dins, dint, dish, dits, ghis, gids, gins, gist, gits, high, hind, hins, hint, hisn, hist. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-h-h-i-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: hindsights. | |
+4 letters: diphthongizes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 6E 64 73 69 67 68 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. -. -.. ... .. --. .... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01101110 01100100 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i n d s i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 006E 0064 0073 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427580708575737486 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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