0 an idea, thought, or plan that was not originally intended but is thought of at a later time: --
1 an idea or plan that was not originally intended: --
As an afterthought, they may also enhance normal abilities.
The instrument is deliberately out of place amongst the predominant wind, and its series of musical afterthoughts only heightens this feeling.
It introduced economic motives only as an afterthought.
These treatments appear to be afterthoughts with no real bearing on the issue.
Almost as an afterthought he notes that the pronoun what does it too.
A since-clause might be postposed, almost as an afterthought, in case the speaker seeks to justify, post hoc, the content of the main clause.
Unfortunately, the concluding chapter on the role of advertising suffers by comparison and has the feeling of being an afterthought.
Political considerations and the availability of funds drive many newly commissioned services, and their evaluation is frequently an afterthought.
