Definition of look

"look" in the noun sense

1. expression, look, aspect, facial expression, face

the feelings expressed on a person's face

"a sad expression"

"a look of triumph"

"an angry face"

2. look, looking, looking at

the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually

"he went out to have a look"

"his look was fixed on her eyes"

"he gave it a good looking at"

"his camera does his looking for him"

3. look

physical appearance

"I don't like the looks of this place"

4. spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

"the feel of the city excited him"

"a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"

"it had the smell of treason"

"look" in the verb sense

1. look

perceive with attention direct one's gaze towards

"She looked over the expanse of land"

"Look at your child!"

"Look

2. look, appear, seem

give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

"She seems to be sleeping"

"This appears to be a very difficult problem"

"This project looks fishy"

"They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"

3. look

have a certain outward or facial expression

"How does she look?"

"The child looks unhappy"

"She looked pale after the surgery"

4. search, look

search or seek

"We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"

"Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

5. front, look, face

be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point be opposite to

"The house looks north"

"My backyard look onto the pond"

"The building faces the park"

6. attend, take care, look, see

take charge of or deal with

"Could you see about lunch?"

"I must attend to this matter"

"She took care of this business"

7. look

convey by one's expression

"She looked her devotion to me"

8. expect, look, await, wait

look forward to the probable occurrence of

"We were expecting a visit from our relatives"

"She is looking to a promotion"

"he is waiting to be drafted"

9. look

accord in appearance with

"You don't look your age!"

10. count, bet, depend, swear, rely, bank, look, calculate, reckon

have faith or confidence in

"you can count on me to help you any time"

"Look to your friends for support"

"You can bet on that!"

"Depend on your family in times of crisis"

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Quotations for look

Look to the end.

Look before you leap. [ Proverb ]

Look high and fall low. [ Proverb ]

A cat may look at a king. [ Title of a Pamphlet (published 1652) ]

A pitiful look asks enough. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Look in thy heart and write. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Trust me, but look to thyself. [ Proverb ]

Do evil, and look for the like. [ Proverb ]

He has an ill look among lambs. [ Proverb ]

To row one way and look another. [ Proverb ]

When pride thaws, look for floods. [ Bailey ]

Look not a gift horse in the mouth. [ Proverb ]

A two penny cat may look at a king. [ Proverb ]

Look not for musk in a dog's kennel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fair words make me look to my purse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In one soft look what language lies! [ Dibdin ]

On painting and fighting look aloof. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You look like the devil in daylight. [ Proverb ]

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You look for hot water under the ice. [ Proverb ]

I look through the grave into heaven. [ Theodore Parker ]

Look for squalls, but don't make them. [ Proverb ]

Look, then, into thine heart and write! [ Longfellow ]

An honest good look covers many faults. [ Proverb ]

Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there. [ George Herbert ]

Look above you, and then look about you. [ Proverb ]

When an old dog barks, one must look out. [ German Proverb ]

Many words and many lies look much alike. [ Proverb ]

Where something is found there look again. [ Proverb ]

Be not choleric. It will make you look old. [ Proverb ]

Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide. [ Chesterfield ]

Look one step onward, and secure that step! [ Robert Browning ]

Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile. [ Young ]

A proud look makes foul work in a fine face. [ Proverb ]

You must look into people as well as at them. [ Chesterfield ]

No tears dim the sweet look that Nature wears. [ Longfellow ]

A wise look may secure a fool, if he talk not. [ Proverb ]

Look at paintings and fightings from a distance. [ Proverb ]

Men generally look more upon decency than virtue. [ Proverb ]

Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. [ William Shakespeare ]

Look to him, jailor, there's a frog in the stocks. [ Proverb ]

Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be sore. [ Proverb ]

We must not look for a golden life in an iron age. [ Proverb ]

A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that has but one eye had need look well to that. [ Proverb ]

Look before you, or you'll have to look behind you. [ Proverb ]

You look like a runner, quoth the devil to the crab. [ Proverb ]

Dress up even a little toad and it will look pretty. [ Proverb ]

You must look where it is not as well as where it is. [ Proverb ]

Wise men may look ridiculous in the company of fools. [ Proverb ]

When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile. [ Joubert ]

Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost. [ Dutch Proverb ]

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. [ Proverb ]

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death. [ Ovid ]

While you look at what is given, look also at the giver. [ Seneca ]

Look at the bright side of a failure as well as the dark. [ Anon ]

Contentment will make a cottage look as fair as a palace. [ W. Secker ]

Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another! [ T. B. Read ]

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes. [ Cervantes ]

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person? [ Plautus ]

A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense. [ La Bruyere ]

A heart doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

You look for a knot in a bulrush, (i.e. are too scrupulous). [ Proverb ]

If you would know secrets, look for them in grief or pleasure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers. [ Sophocles ]

You look as though you would make the crow a pudding ere long . [ Proverb ]

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in a mirror. [ Ovid ]

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. [ Beaconsfield ]

From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on us. [ Napoleon to his troops in Egypt ]

One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. [ Proverb ]

Soldiers! from yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you. [ Napoleon I ]

I am afraid to think what I have done; look on it again I dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart. [ Haliburton ]

They appear to me of a noble family; they look proud and contented. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frosch in the witches' cellar in "Faust." ]

People come to look; their greatest pleasure is to feast their eyes. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When the next house is on fire, it is high time to look to your own. [ Proverb ]

We always find wit and merit in those who look at us with admiration.

The more women look in their glass the less they look to their house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A cat may look at a king, but can it see a king when it looks at him? [ John Ruskin ]

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. [ Shakespeare ]

He that does not as he ought, must not look to be done to as he would. [ Proverb ]

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

If you would take a peep at sunshine, look in the face of a young mother. [ Fanny Fern ]

To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity. [ Johnson ]

But look for ruin when a coward wins; For fear and cruelty are ever twins. [ Aleyn ]

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! [ William Shakespeare ]

Look closely at those who patronise you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The more women look into their glass, the less they look into their hearts. [ Proverb ]

Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world. [ Oxenstiern ]

And yet you had the look of one that promised (threatened) many fine things. [ Horace ]

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. [ L. E. Landon ]

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. [ Chamfort ]

A man's opinions, look you, are generally of much more value than his arguments. [ Holmes ]

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song. [ Wordsworth ]

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting. [ Seneca ]

Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies! [ William Shakespeare ]

look in Scrabble®

The word look is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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look in Words With Friends™

The word look is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of look

3 letter words in look (1 word)

4 letter words in look (1 word)

look + 1 blank (2 words)

look + 2 blanks (6 words)

Word Growth involving look

Shorter words in look

loo

Longer words containing look

afterlook afterlooks

downlook downlookers

downlook downlooking

downlook downlooks

hindlook

lookahead nonlookahead

lookalike lookalikes

looked overlooked

looked relooked forelooked

looked underlooked

looked unlooked

looker lookers downlookers

looker lookers onlookers

looker lookers outlookers

looker lookers overlookers

looker lookers underlookers

looker lookers uplookers

looker onlooker onlookers

looker overlooker overlookers

looker underlooker underlookers

looking downlooking

looking fattylooking

looking forwardlooking

looking goodlooking

looking grimlooking

looking illlooking

looking lookingglass lookingglasses

looking modernlooking

looking onlooking

looking overlooking

looking relooking forelooking

looking sinisterlooking

looking underlooking

lookout lookouts

lookover lookovers

looks afterlooks

looks downlooks

looks outlooks

looks overlooks

looks plooks

looks relooks forelooks

looks sidelooks

looks underlooks

lookup lookups

outlook outlookers

outlook outlooks

overlook overlookable

overlook overlooked

overlook overlooker overlookers

overlook overlooking

overlook overlooks

plook plookie plookier

plook plookie plookiest

plook plooks

plook plooky

plook uplookers

relook relooked forelooked

relook relooking forelooking

relook relooks forelooks

sidelook sidelooks