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Captain Hindsight

Captain Hindsight proper noun: a person who is happy to criticize decisions with the benefit of hindsight, but did nothing to stop those decisions being made at the time.

Proper noun

Captain Hindsight

  1. (derogatory, humorous, informal) A person who is happy to criticize decisions with the benefit of hindsight, but did nothing to stop those decisions being made at the time.

Origin of Captain Hindsight

Either originated with, or popularized by, a cartoon character of the same name from the U.S. animated TV series South Park.

Questions about Captain Hindsight

What does Captain Hindsight mean?
Captain Hindsight means a person who is happy to criticize decisions with the benefit of hindsight, but did nothing to stop those decisions being made at the time.
What part of speech is Captain Hindsight?
Captain Hindsight is a proper noun.

Words near Captain Hindsight in the dictionary

  1. Captain Cooks
  2. Captain Ersatz
  3. Captain Ersatzes
  4. captain general
  5. captain generals
  6. Captain Hindsight
  7. Captain Hook
  8. Captain Kirk
  9. Captain Kirks
  10. Captain Obvious
  11. captain of industry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Captain Hindsight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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