Rethought

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈθɔːt/

Definitions

1. The action of reconsidering or thinking again about a subject or decision
2. The process where an idea or plan is reviewed and evaluated once more
3. A past instance of revising one's thoughts or opinions regarding a matter

Etymology: "Rethought" is the past tense and past participle of "rethink", and the verb itself is about as transparent as English gets: it is formed from the prefix "re-", meaning again, attached to "think". The prefix comes from Latin "re-", which reached English partly through Old French, while "think" descends from Old English "þenċan", a word that goes back to Proto-Germanic "þankijaną". The interesting wrinkle is that the two halves have very different histories. "Think" in Old English meant to conceive of something in the mind, and it is a different verb from "thencan", the Old English word for "to seem", which gave rise to modern "methinks". "Rethink" is simply the combination of those two strands, and "rethought" follows the irregular pattern of "think" and "thought" that English has kept since Old English.

Synonyms: reconsidered, reassessed, reexamined