change of mind

1. 1.

   a decision to reverse an earlier decision

   Synonymsreversalflip-flopturnaboutturnaround

   Broaderdecision making

   Narrowerreconsideration

Questions about change of mind

What does change of mind mean?

change of mind means "a decision to reverse an earlier decision".

What is another word for change of mind?

Close synonyms include reversal, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is change of mind a common word?

change of mind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.