Word Meanings - RECONSIDERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECONSIDERATION)

• Retrospect
• Review
• survey
• recollection
• reminiscence
• reconsideration
• Resurvey
• retrospect
• revisal
• re-examination
• critique
• criticism

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECONSIDERATION)

• Discard
• dismiss
• overlook
• skim
• disregard
• misexamine

Related words: (words related to RECONSIDERATION)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• RETROSPECT
  A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. Cowper. We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy. Landor.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• RETROSPECTIVE
  1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope. 2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• REVIEWER
  One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
• REVISAL
  The act of revising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.
• DISCARDURE
  Rejection; dismissal. Hayter.
• SURVEYANCE
  Survey; inspection.
• DISCARD
  To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside 2. To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away. They blame the favorites, and think it nothing
• RESURVEY
  To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.
• DISREGARDFUL
  Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
• DISREGARDER
  One who disregards.
• SURVEYING
  That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• NEOCRITICISM
  The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
• ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
  The art of interpreting dreams.