outlook

== English == === Etymology 1 === From out- +‎ look. ==== Pronunciation ==== Noun: IPA(key): /ˈaʊtˌlʊk/ Verb: IPA(key): /ˌaʊtˈlʊk/ Rhymes: -ʊk ==== Noun ==== outlook (plural outlooks) A place from which something can be viewed. Synonyms: vantage point, overlook, prospect The view from such a place. An attitude or point of view. Synonyms: attitude, opinion, perspective, point of view, vantage point, viewpoint, standpoint Expectation for the future. Synonyms: expectation, prognosis, prospect ===== Derived terms ===== on the outlook ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== outlook (third-person singular simple present outlooks, present participle outlooking, simple past and past participle outlooked) (intransitive, archaic, literary) To face or look in an outward direction. Synonym: look out 1610, Gervase Markham, Markhams Maister-peece, or, What Doth a Horse-man Lack? London, Chapter 103 “Certaine speciall Notes to be obserued in buying of a horse,” pp. 204-205,[1] [...] marke his colour and his shape, that is to say, a comely well proportioned head, with an outlooking eye, good well raised shoulders, and a thicke large breast [...] (transitive, archaic) To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something). Synonyms: outstare, face down, browbeat, overcome (transitive, obsolete) To be more attractive than (someone or something). 1731, Mary Delany, letter dated 4 October, 1731, in George Paston (ed.), Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, London: Grant Richards, 1900, p. 64,[7] Nobody’s equipage outlooked ours except my Lord Lieutenant’s, but in every respect I must say Mrs. Clayton outshines her neighbours [...] 1793, Hester Piozzi, letter dated 22 May, 1793, in Oswald G. Knapp (ed.), The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821, London: The Bodley Head, 1914, p. 89,[8] [...] Sally quite outlooked her sister by the bye, and was very finely drest. 1862, B. F. Taylor, diary entry dated 5 November, 1862, in E. R. Hutchins (ed.), The War of the Sixties, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912, p. 36,[9] Burnside, handsome, stately, outlooked his chief on horseback as on foot. (transitive, obsolete) To inspect throughly; to select. 1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76,[10] Away to the Brook, All your Tackle out look, Here’s a day that is worth a year’s wishing; See that all things be right, For ’tis a very spight To want tools when a man goes a fishing. (transitive, obsolete) To look beyond (something). ===== Derived terms ===== outlooker === Etymology 2 === From out +‎ look. Perhaps influenced by Chinese 外表 (literally “outside + surface”) and English look (“appearance”). Same etymology as Cantonese outlook. ==== Noun ==== outlook (plural not attested) (Hong Kong, colloquial) look; appearance === Anagrams === Lookout, look out, look-out, lookout == Chinese == === Etymology === From English. See English outlook. === Pronunciation === === Noun === outlook (Hong Kong Cantonese) look; appearance; outfit