Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

    You know what they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty.

    In hindsight, I realize that I should have studied harder for the exam.

    Rückblick

    взгля́д в про́шлоеvzgljád v próšloje, ретроспективный взглядretrospektivnyj vzgljad

    understanding the nature of an event after it has happened

  2. (countable, rare, uncountable)The rear sight of a firearm.

    Holonym: iron sights

    прицелpricel

Examples

19 sentences
  1. In hindsight, this was a mistake.

    Озираючись у минуле, це була помилка.

    ruОглядываясь назад, я понимаю, что это была ошибка.

    deIm nachhinein betrachtet, war es ein Fehler.

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  2. The truth is always obvious in hindsight.

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  3. In hindsight, she wished she had acted differently.

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  4. I sometimes do things I can't explain in hindsight.

    deIch tue manchmal Dinge, die ich im nachhinein nicht erklären kann.

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  5. It really wasn't worth the money at the hindsight.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
after-the-fact realisation or understanding:
rear sight of a firearm:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
after-the-fact realisation or understanding:

Origin

From hind + sight, 19th c. Compare Latinate retrospect.

From hind + sight, 19th c. Compare Latinate retrospect.

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