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  1. HINDSIGHT definition: 1. the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened: 2. the ability to…. Learn more.

  2. The meaning of HINDSIGHT is perception of the nature of an event after it has happened. How to use hindsight in a sentence.

  3. Hindsight is the ability to understand and realize something about an event after it has happened, although you did not understand or realize it at the time. With hindsight, we'd all do things differently.

  4. HINDSIGHT meaning: 1. the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened: 2. the ability to…. Learn more.

  5. Hindsight is like looking behind you to see what just happened (behind sight, get it?). Another way of describing retrospection, hindsight is a useful skill that can be cultivated. Hindsight often refers to a lesson learned from something going wrong. Billy Wilder, the American movie director, once commented wistfully, “Hindsight is always ...

  6. hindsight. noun. /ˈhaɪndsaɪt/. /ˈhaɪndsaɪt/. [uncountable] the understanding that you have of a situation only after it has happened and that means you would have done things in a different way.

  7. Hindsight definition: recognition of the realities, possibilities, or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence.. See examples of HINDSIGHT used in a sentence.

  8. the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened: With hindsight, I should have taken the job. (Definition of hindsight from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of hindsight. in Chinese (Traditional) 後見之明,事後孔明… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 事后聪明,事后的认识… See more. in Spanish.

  9. noun. the ability to understand, after something has happened, what should have been done or what caused the event. a firearm's rear sight. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of hindsight 1. First recorded in 1850–55; hind 1 + sight. Discover More. Example Sentences.

  10. the ability to understand, after something has happened, what should have been done or what caused the event. a firearm's rear sight. 'hindsight' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): Monday morning quarterback - second-guess - twenty-twenty.

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