outlook

English Online Dictionary. What means outlook‎? What does outlook mean?

English

Etymology 1

From out- +‎ look.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtˌlʊk/
• Verb:
  • IPA^(key): /ˌaʊtˈlʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk

Noun

outlook (plural outlooks)

1. A place from which something can be viewed.

   Synonyms: vantage point, overlook
2. The view from such a place.
3. An attitude or point of view.

   Synonyms: attitude, opinion, perspective, point of view, vantage point, viewpoint

4. 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)

1. (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 [...]
2. (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
3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (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)

1. (Hong Kong, colloquial) look; appearance

Anagrams

• Lookout, look out, look-out, lookout

Chinese

Etymology

From English. See English outlook.

Pronunciation

Noun

outlook

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) look; appearance; outfit