then again

1. 1.

   (contrastive) from another point of view

   “on the other hand, she is too ambitious for her own good”

   “then again, she might not go”

   Synonymson the other hand

Questions about then again

What does then again mean?

then again means "(contrastive) from another point of view".

What is another word for then again?

Close synonyms include on the other hand. 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 then again a common word?

then again is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.