hindsight
hahynd sahyt
- n understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
hindsight is always better than foresight
- Some pessimists, with the benefit of hindsight, suggested that the years after 911 marked the beginning of the end of the American Century.
- Yet, incredibly, all of the evidence and arguments necessary to have made the right decision were available at the time and in hindsight are glaringly obvious.
- This is not a case of the advantage of hindsight; this was obviously a crazy idea, even in 1913.