Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for look on

look on

verb

  1. adverb to be a spectator at an event or incident
  2. Alsolook upon preposition to consider or regard

    he looks on his mother-in-law with disapproval

    she looked on the whole affair as a joke

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Derived Forms

  • ˌlooker-ˈon, noun
Discover More

Example Sentences

Like the spellbinder, the oracle frequently builds on the look-on-this-picture-and-then-on-that plan.

After an hour had passed, Kisseck popped his head out of the hatchways, and cried, "Try the look-on."

Hour after hour wore on, and not a fish came to the "look-on" net.

Then hour after hour wore on, and not a fish came to the look-on net.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


look like the cat that ate the canarylook on the bright side