What is another word for looking?
288 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ lˈʊkɪŋ], [ lˈʊkɪŋ], [ l_ˈʊ_k_ɪ_ŋ]
Looking is a versatile verb that can describe various forms of gazing, observing, and examining. If you want to enhance your vocabulary, there are many synonyms for the word looking that you can use in your writing or conversations. Some of the most common synonyms for looking include glancing, staring, peeking, peering, scrutinizing, gazing, examining, and studying. You can also use specific verbs to describe different types of looking, such as ogling (for admiring someone's physical appearance), surveying (for assessing an area or situation), or scanning (for quickly searching for something). By using these synonyms, you can add more depth and nuance to your language and create more vivid and engaging descriptions and narratives.
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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.
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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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