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Outlook
Definitions
- 1 A place from which something can be viewed.
"Perched on the edge of the cliff was a hidden outlook."
- 2 look; appearance Hong-Kong, colloquial, no-plural
"How ignorant you are! Admiring the outlook of a same sex person has nothing to do with gay! Some of my male friends admire Andy Lau's and Leslie Cheung's looks quite a lot, but unfortunately, they are NOT gay, not BI, they are totally STRAIGHT!"
- 3 the act of looking out wordnet
- 4 The view from such a place.
"Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows."
- 5 belief about (or mental picture of) the future wordnet
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- 6 An attitude or point of view.
"He has a positive outlook on life."
- 7 a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations wordnet
- 8 Expectation for the future.
"The outlook for temperature rises is worrying."
- 1 To face or look in an outward direction. archaic, intransitive, literary
"This old man with the ſythe, olde father Tyme they call, / And hir his daughter Trueth, which holdeth yonder Booke, / Whome he out of his rocke hath brought forth to vs all, / From whence this many yeares ſhe durſt not once out looke."
- 2 To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something). archaic, transitive
"[...] I drew this gallant head of war, And cull’d these fiery spirits from the world, To outlook conquest and to win renown Even in the jaws of danger and of death."
- 3 To be more attractive than (someone or something). obsolete, transitive
"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, Nobody’s equipage outlooked ours except my Lord Lieutenant’s, but in every respect I must say Mrs. Clayton outshines her neighbours …"
- 4 To inspect throughly; to select. obsolete, transitive
"1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76, 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."
- 5 To look beyond (something). obsolete, transitive
"[...] to fit minds to so even a temper, that both should round the same circle, and never out-look the Horizon of their reciprocal Interest, is a work altogether impossible."
Etymology
From out- + look.
From out- + look.
From out + look. Perhaps influenced by Chinese 外表 (literally “outside + surface”) and English look (“appearance”). Same etymology as Cantonese outlook.
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