Synonyms for look
- verb
- noun
- interjection
Most common
consider examine take notice behold expect anticipate appear stare
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Consider
consider, examine, take notice, behold, watch, take care, regard, view, mind, inspect, investigate, contemplate, notice, scrutinize, scrutinise UK, observe, bet, sight, gaze, swear, reckon, scan, heed
2. Expect
4. Glance
peek informal, stare, glimpse, peep, ogle, peer, gloat, glare, glower, pry, take a gander slang, luster dated US, lustre UK, lustrate dated
Noun
1. Face
face, aspect, appearance, countenance, expression, manner, seeming, visage, facial expression, semblance, complexion, air, presence, guise
Interjection
Definitions
- v. 1
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes. As an intransitive verb, often with “at”.
Don’t look in the closet.
- v. 2
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes. As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
Look what you did to him!
- n. 1
The action of looking; an attempt to see.
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
- interj. 1
Pay attention.
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
Related words
- Word family
- look-out lookism looksome
- Phrases
- look upon look into look up to look at look-up look after look to look for
- Is a kind of
- examine observe pay attention see
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Expression and look especially refer to the face. Expression is oftenest applied to that which is habitual; as, he has a pleasant expression of countenance; look may be momentary; as, a look of dismay passed over his face.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- watch Bob hurried home in order to watch the TV program.
- consider I do not consider her choice of music a happy one.
- glance I could tell at a glance that something was wrong.
- seek Hide and seek / I count to three / Winter has come
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| look | rising | |
| watch | rising | |
| consider | steady | |
| glance | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 2 letters
- so1
- 3 letters
- see1, air1, hey1, lol1, bet1, pry1
- 4 letters
- well1, show1, feel1, face1, mind1, wait1, view1, seem1, mine1, seek1, hunt1, tone1, scan1, peer1
- 5 letters
- watch1, front1, sight1, swear1, smell1, stare1, await2, guise1, glare1, gloat1
- 6 letters
- expect2, search1, notice2, appear2, spirit2, manner2, regard2, aspect2, flavor2, glance1, behold2, reckon2, luster2, lustre2
- 7 letters
- feeling2, examine3, observe2, glimpse1, flavour, inspect2, seeming2
- 8 letters
- consider3, presence2, butchers2, lustrate
- 9 letters
- semblance2
- 10 letters
- appearance3, expression3, anticipate4, complexion3, scrutinize3, scrutinise
- 11 letters
- investigate4, contemplate3, countenance3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (await2 = 2 syllables).