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Past tense of reconsider

regular verb

The past tense of reconsider is reconsidered. The past participle is also reconsidered.

Forms of reconsider

Base form (V1)reconsider /ˈɹiːkənˌsɪdə/
Past tense (V2)reconsidered
Past participle (V3)reconsidered
Present participlereconsidering
Third person singularreconsiders

Reconsidered in a sentence

  • Based on that phylogenetic hypothesis, the taxonomic definitions of many coccinelloid groups were reconsidered.2022 November 24, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Wioletta Tomaszewska, Karol Szawaryn, James Robertson, Matthias Seidel, Adam Ślipiński, Martin…. From the entry coccinelloid
  • On second thought, she reconsidered, looking up into Murphy's eyes; maybe he was a little off-kilter.2014, Marie Ferrarella, Her Forever Cowboy, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry off-kilter
  • He reconsidered his belief that there was no delirium, wondering if the feeling were not itself a form of hallucination.1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry buoyant
  • Then, when I came back they reconsidered things.1946, Richard McMillan, Miracle Before Berlin. From the entry bowler hat out
  • Before undertaking the broadband comparisons of the piezomagnetoelastic and piezoelastic configurations, the voltage history of Figure 8.17b is reconsidered in two parts.2011, Alper Erturk, Daniel J. Inman, Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting. From the entry piezoelastic

Meaning of reconsider

  1. verb To consider a matter again.
  2. verb To change one's mind, with or without actually considering the matter again.

Full definition of reconsider

Questions about the past tense of reconsider

What is the past tense of reconsider?
The past tense of reconsider is reconsidered.
What is the past participle of reconsider?
The past participle of reconsider is reconsidered.
Is reconsider a regular or irregular verb?
Reconsider is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reconsider (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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