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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
looking
1. the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Syn:
look, looking at
• Derivationally related forms:
look (for: look)
• Hypernyms:
sensing, perception
• Hyponyms:
glance, glimpse, coup d'oeil, scrutiny, peek,
peep, squint, stare, evil eye, sightseeing, rubber-necking,
observation, observance, watching, lookout, outlook, view,
survey, sight, dekko
2. the act of searching visually
• Syn:
looking for
• Hypernyms:
search, hunt, hunting
appearing to be as specified;
usually used as combining forms (Freq. 5)
- left their clothes dirty looking
- a most disagreeable looking character
- angry-looking
- liquid-looking
- severe-looking policemen on noble horses
- fine-sounding phrases
- taken in by high-sounding talk
• Syn:
sounding
• Similar to:
superficial
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