What is another word for looking?
Pronunciation:
[ lˈʊkɪŋ], [ lˈʊkɪŋ], [ l_ˈʊ_k_ɪ_ŋ]
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Synonyms for Looking:
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adj.
• directed • observing • all • pointing • seeing -
n.
• gaze -
v.
• observing • seeing Other synonyms:
- shopping .
Other relevant words:
- Adverting ,
- Aiming ,
- Anticipating ,
- Ascertaining ,
- Assisting ,
- Awaiting ,
- Breasting ,
- Carrying ,
- Checking ,
- Ciphering ,
- Considering ,
- Construing ,
- Contemplating ,
- Countenancing ,
- Coup D'oeil ,
- Deeming ,
- Depending ,
- Discovering ,
- Encountering ,
- Enumerating ,
- Escorting ,
- Estimating ,
- Examining ,
- Expecting ,
- Experiencing ,
- Exploring ,
- Faceting ,
- Fancying ,
- Forming ,
- Fronting ,
- Imagining ,
- Insuring ,
- Mattering ,
- Nerving ,
- Ogling ,
- Open-mouthed ,
- Peeping ,
- Prospecting ,
- Realizing ,
- Requiring ,
- Scenting ,
- Spiriting ,
- Stepping ,
- Styling ,
- Timbering ,
- Toning ,
- Wagering ,
- accounting ,
- admiring ,
- agape ,
- agree ,
- airing ,
- alert ,
- all agog ,
- anxious ,
- appearance ,
- appearing ,
- apprehensive ,
- approximation ,
- archaeological ,
- ascertain ,
- asking ,
- aspect ,
- assure ,
- assuring ,
- attending ,
- auspicious ,
- aux aguets ,
- bright ,
- calculating ,
- character ,
- check ,
- cheering ,
- coloring ,
- computing ,
- conditioning ,
- confronting ,
- consider ,
- consult ,
- control ,
- controlling ,
- convey ,
- correspond ,
- countenance ,
- counting ,
- curious ,
- dating ,
- decide ,
- deem ,
- dekko ,
- depend on ,
- determine ,
- determining ,
- diction ,
- directing ,
- discuss ,
- eager ,
- encouraging ,
- engage ,
- ensure ,
- ensuring ,
- entertain ,
- envisioning ,
- espial ,
- espionage ,
- evil eye ,
- examination ,
- examine ,
- expectant ,
- expression ,
- eyeballing ,
- eyeing ,
- eying ,
- face ,
- facial expression ,
- facing ,
- fashioning ,
- feel ,
- feeling ,
- figuring ,
- flavor ,
- flavoring ,
- flavour ,
- flavouring ,
- full of promise ,
- gaping ,
- gawking ,
- gaze ,
- gestating ,
- ghost ,
- gleaming ,
- go over ,
- grimacing ,
- guard ,
- guessing ,
- hear ,
- hopeful ,
- hunting ,
- identify ,
- imaging ,
- impart ,
- in expectation ,
- in the market ,
- inspection ,
- inspiriting ,
- insure ,
- interpreting ,
- it seems ,
- keep under surveillance ,
- kenning ,
- learn ,
- leering ,
- life ,
- look ,
- look after ,
- look at ,
- look for ,
- look into ,
- looking at ,
- looking for ,
- lookout ,
- memory ,
- mood ,
- not worth it ,
- note ,
- notice ,
- numbering ,
- observance ,
- observation ,
- observe ,
- odor ,
- on tenterhooks ,
- on the watch ,
- open-eyed ,
- outlook ,
- perception ,
- physical appearance ,
- playing ,
- priority ,
- probable ,
- projecting ,
- promising ,
- propitious ,
- prying ,
- ready ,
- realising ,
- reassuring ,
- receive ,
- reckoning ,
- reek ,
- regard ,
- relishing ,
- rely ,
- respect ,
- retroactive ,
- retrospect ,
- retrospection ,
- retrospective ,
- rose-colored ,
- roseate ,
- savoring ,
- savouring ,
- scanning ,
- scrutiny ,
- searching ,
- see ,
- seem ,
- seeming ,
- serving ,
- sightseeing ,
- smacking ,
- smell ,
- solicit ,
- sounding ,
- spirit ,
- squinting ,
- superficial ,
- surfacing ,
- surveying ,
- swear ,
- tending ,
- tone ,
- tonicity ,
- touching ,
- vigilant ,
- visiting ,
- visualizing ,
- waiting ,
- watch ,
- watchful ,
- weighing ,
- with bated breath .
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How to use "Looking" in context?
The Oxford English Dictionary says the verb "to look" is derived from the Old English word "lēacen," meaning "to see." "looking" is also the main verb in the auxiliary verb "to look for." In ancient Greece, looking was a way to see things that were hidden. Looking is also the first step in understanding what someone is saying or what is happening.
Paraphrases for Looking:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Reverse Entailment
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Verb, gerund or present participle
good-looking, overlooking, staring.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Independent
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Cardinal number
sounds.
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Proper noun, singular
Intentions, approaches, finds, directions, dimensions, WORMS.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
accepting, according, account, acting, advancing, advertising, affecting, age, ageing, ai, allegedly, always, analysis, analyzed, announcement, appearing, approaching, approximately, arresting, asking, aspiring, assuming, attending, bagging, bearing, becoming, beginning, being, believing, bending, beneath, beware, blowing, bowing, brainstorming, breaking, brewing, bring, bringing, browsing, building, buying, calling, canvassing, caring, case, casting, catering, causing, cheating, close, closing, collecting, coming, comparing, complying, concerning, conducting, confronting, consultation, contact, controlling, counselling, counting, covering, cutting, dealing, deepening, defining, demanding, designing, detecting, determining, develop, devising, digging, directing, discover, drafting, drawing, driving, duty, dying, ec, embracing, emerging, enabling, ending, engaging, entering, envisioning, examination, face, facing, feeling, fencing, fetching, fewer, figuring, filming, find, firing, fixing, focusing, focussing, following, foraging, forecasting, fostering, friend, funding, future, gathering, gearing, getting, giving, going, good, greeting, guiding, handling, happening, heading, hearing, helping, highly, hitting, holding, hope, hunting, identifying, impact, improving, increasing, information, informing, inquiry, integrating, interesting, intervening, investigating, investing, joining, judging, jumping, keeping, know, knowing, laying, leading, leaning, learning, leaving, lending, less, leveraging, listening, living, locating, lying, making, me, meaning, measuring, missing, mister, monitor, monitoring, monsieur, motion, mount, moving, nine, not, nothing, notice, observing, offending, offering, open, operating, owing, passing, paying, pending, perceive, performing, picking, planning, playing, pointing, posing, preserving, pretending, probably, probing, proceeding, processing, projecting, promising, proposal, pulling, pursuing, pushing, putting, query, questioning, quite, raising, ranging, reaching, reading, recruit, refer, reflecting, regarding, remaining, remembering, reporting, resulting, returning, reverting, review, revising, revolving, rolling, rotating, running, saving, saying, scanning, screening, see, seeing, select, servicing, serving, setting, sharing, shifting, shooting, showing, sitting, somebody, someone, speaking, spending, spinning, stalking, standing, starting, stopping, strike, striking, struggling, study, studying, super, supervising, surrounding, survey, surveying, swing, tackling, taking, talking, tapping, target, telling, tempting, testing, thinking, thirsty, thought, ticking, touring, trace, tracing, tracking, train, travelling, trying, turn, turning, understanding, urging, verifying, vi, viewing, visit, visiting, waiting, walking, wandering, wanting, warning, watch, watching, wearing, weighing, welcoming, willing, wish, wishing, wondering, work, working, Achieving, Acknowledging, Addressing, Adhering, Administering, Aiming, Allowing, Amending, Analyses, Analyzing, Announcing, Anticipating, Applying, Apprehending, Arising, Ascertaining, Assessing, Assisting, Attaining, Attempting, Attracting, Auditing, Awaiting, Capitalizing, Capturing, Carrying, Chasing, Checking, Choosing, Claiming, D, Debating, Decking, Dedicating, Deeming, Deliberating, Depending, Desiring, Devoting, Did, Discovering, Discussing, Doing, Does, Educating, Employing, Enjoying, Envisaged, Envisaging, Establishing, Estimating, Evolving, Examining, Expecting, Experiencing, Exploring, Expressing, Fulfilling, Gaining, Gentlemen, Got, Grabbing, Guaranteeing, Having, Hiring, Hoping, Ignoring, Including, Incorporating, Indicating, Inspecting, Intending, Interviewing, Introducing, Invoking, L, Levying, Maintaining, Managing, Needing, Negotiating, Noting, Obtaining, Occupying, Overseeing, Parsing, Perceiving, Pertaining, Placing, Plunging, Querying, Realizing, Receiving, Recognizing, Recruiting, Referring, Relating, Relying, Remarking, Repairing, Requesting, Resorting, Respecting, Responding, Retrieving, Securing, Selecting, Throwing, Treating, Undergoing, Utilizing, Were, Witnessing, Yourself, coping, Commenting, Conceiving, Concentrating, Considering, Consulting, Containing, Contemplating, Postponing, Predicting, Preparing, Presenting, Promoting, Proposing, Prosecuting, Providing, Proving, Stating, Staying, Storing, Subduing, Submitting, Suggesting, Wanna, Mainstreaming, takes, upholding, undermining, accessing, evaluating, considers, exploiting, exhibits, demonstrating, announces, ages, ensuring, safeguarding, outcomes, results, peeking, reviewing, recalling, DO, Sourcing, targeting, vetting, reconsidering, sponsoring, obsessing, analysing, endeavouring, scrutinising, fucking, i, us, finishwatching, aanmerking, .., iooking.
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Cardinal number
Homophones for Looking:
- laziness, licensee, lagging, license, licking, lysogenize, locking, lessening, lessing, lushness, lignosae, licence, looseness, legging, lawlessness, lake seneca, leishmaniasis, leishmaniosis, loquaciousness, losings, lysenko, loganiaceae, loosening, ligneous, leguminous, logginess, Logomachy, logging, lashing, leguminosae, lake nyasa, laxness, Leakiness, lacking, laughing gas, lissomeness, likeness, laughing, lychnis, loginess, laughing jackass, Luckiness, lichenes, likening, lousiness, lashings, licencee, lysimachia, logomach, laconic, like kings, Lake Onega, loch ness, lysimachus, liking, lacewing, leaching, leucogenes, lozenge, leguminious, lysogenic, luging, lusciousness, lacing.
Hyponym for Looking:
n.
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act
perception, sensing.
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act
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