What are the opposite words for looking over?

Looking over means to examine, review or inspect something carefully. The antonyms for this phrase would be overlooking, ignoring, neglecting, or disregarding. Overlooking indicates a failure to notice, whereas ignoring means deliberately choosing to disregard or pay no attention to it. Neglecting indicates a lack of interest or concern for something or someone, and disregarding means to treat with indifference, or to dismiss as unimportant. In contrast to looking over, these antonyms indicate a lack of attention or care and can have negative consequences if not corrected. Therefore, it is important to avoid these opposite actions when necessary.

What are the antonyms for Looking over?

• v.

  • appraise
  • ignore
  ,
  • neglect
  .
  • brush up
  • forget
  .
  • check
  • aid
  ,
  • allow
  ,
  • assist
  ,
  • disprove
  ,
  • estimate
  ,
  • expedite
  ,
  • guess
  ,
  • help
  ,
  • indulge
  ,
  • invalidate
  ,
  • liberate
  ,
  • permit
  .
  • examine
  • approve
  ,
  • overlook
  ,
  • praise
  .
  • front
  • avoid
  ,
  • retreat
  .
  • gauge
  • subtract
  .
  • inspect
  • answer
  ,
  • reply
  .
  • investigate
  • leave alone
  .
  • look into
  • disregard
  .
  • measure
  • disorder
  ,
  • disorganize
  ,
  • divide
  ,
  • separate
  .
  • overlook
  • attend
  ,
  • deny
  ,
  • drop
  ,
  • fall
  ,
  • follow
  ,
  • heed
  ,
  • honor
  ,
  • look at
  ,
  • notice
  ,
  • prevent
  ,
  • refuse
  ,
  • regard
  ,
  • respect
  ,
  • serve
  ,
  • veto
  .
  • pore
  • flip through
  ,
  • look away
  ,
  • scan
  .
  • revise
  • decrease
  ,
  • harm
  ,
  • injure
  ,
  • ruin
  ,
  • worsen
  .
  • scrutinize
  • misunderstand
  .
  • search
  • cover
  ,
  • find
  .
  • tower
  • decline
  ,
  • descend
  ,
  • fail
  ,
  • fall behind
  ,
  • lose
  ,
  • lower
  ,
  • surrender
  ,
  • yield
  .

Famous quotes with Looking over

• Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

  John Abizaid
• I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

  Francesca Annis
• A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

  Bernard Baruch
• Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

  Barbara Castle
• If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

  Edsger Dijkstra

Synonyms:

parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parrot, parrot, parakeet, paraquet, paroquet.