Synonyms for stare
Definitions
- v. 1
To look fixedly (at something).
She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.
Related words
- Word family
- starer
- Phrases
- stare down death stare thousand-yard stare stare daggers stare out thousand-mile stare hundred-yard stare
- Is a kind of
- look
Forms
- Past participle
- stared
e.g. stared → gazed, looked, glowered, gaped…
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To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- gaze Yanni felt Skura's gaze hitting him like a brick.
- gloat I don’t gloat when you lose — as long as you play.
- gape "Please don't gape at me. It's rather rude, y'know."
By length
- 4 letters
- look1, gaze1, gape1
- 5 letters
- gloat1
- 6 letters
- goggle2, glower2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (goggle2 = 2 syllables).