intj · name · noun · verb · 35 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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lo͝ok
/lʊk/
British, Southern, Standard:[lɵk]
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
intj
Meaning 1
Pay attention.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
name
Meaning 2
A surname transferred from the given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
name
Meaning 3
A surname from Chinese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
The action of looking; an attempt to see.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gander
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
Physical appearance, visual impression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: often, plural
Examples
She got her mother’s looks.
I don’t like the look of the new design.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
noun
Meaning 6
A facial expression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
He gave me a dirty look.
If looks could kill ...
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
7
verb
Meaning 7
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
They kept looking at me.
Don’t look in the closet.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
8
verb
Meaning 8
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, transitive
Examples
Look what you did to him!
Look who's back!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
9
verb
Meaning 9
To appear, to seem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like rain [is coming].
Our new boss looks to be friendly.
It looks as if [or like] I'm stuck with you.
You didn't use to look so dismal, but now you look/are looking positively unhappy.
(UK) He always looks like scoring a goal if not two.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
10
verb
Meaning 10
To give an appearance of being.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: copulative
Examples
That painting looks nice.
You’re looking worried. Whaddya thinking about?
You looked a fool when you slipped on a banana peel.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
11
verb
Meaning 11
To search for, to try to find.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, often
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
12
verb
Meaning 12
To face or present a view.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.
1769, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text, Ezekiel, xi, 1, Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward:
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
13
verb
Meaning 13
To expect or anticipate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book VI, Canto XI, 1750, The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 139,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
14
verb
Meaning 14
To express or manifest by a look.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
15
verb
Meaning 15
To make sure of, to see to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: often, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
16
verb
Meaning 16
To show oneself in looking; to peep out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, figuratively, sometimes
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
17
verb
Meaning 17
To check, to make sure (of something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
18
verb
Meaning 18
To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
19
verb
Meaning 19
To seek; to search for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Examples
c. 1552–1599, Edmund Spenser, unidentified sonnet, Looking my love, I go from place to place, Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind; And seek each where, where last I saw her face, Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
20
verb
Meaning 20
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Examples
to look down opposition
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy, Act 3, Scene 1, 1701, The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas Written by John Dryden, Esq, Volume 2, page 464, A Spirit fit to start into an Empire, And look the World to Law.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
21
verb
Meaning 21
To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Narrower terms: expect, look forward, look to, hang on, hold the line, hold on, anticipate, look for
29
verb
Meaning 29
convey by one's expression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
She looked her devotion to me
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: convey
30
verb
Meaning 30
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
She looked over the expanse of land
Look at your child!
Look--a deer in the backyard!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: stare, take a look, have a look, get a load, look back, look backward, look away, look around, gaze, regard, consider, ogle, give the glad eye, leer, goggle, gape, gawp, gawk, admire, peep, glance, peek, glint, gloat, eye, eyeball, give the eye, give the once over, squint, peer
31
verb
Meaning 31
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
She seems to be sleeping
This appears to be a very difficult problem
This project looks fishy
They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time
be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
The house looks north
My backyard look onto the pond
The building faces the park
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: front, face
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lie
Narrower terms: confront
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn Old English lōcian Middle English loken English look From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn).
From Luke (“a given name”).
From Cantonese 陸 /陆 (luk6, “a surname”).
Across languages
Translations
610 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
виж
(viž)
— interjection to attract attention
Finnish:
katsos
— interjection to attract attention
Finnish:
katsokaas
— interjection to attract attention
French:
écoute
— interjection to attract attention
French:
écoutez
— interjection to attract attention
Galician:
cata
— interjection to attract attention
Hungarian:
nézze
— interjection to attract attention
Ingrian:
kas
— interjection to attract attention
Italian:
guarda qui!
— interjection to attract attention
Korean:
봐봐
(bwa-bwa)
— interjection to attract attention
Korean:
들어봐
(deureo-bwa)
— interjection to attract attention
Latin:
age
— interjection to attract attention
Latin:
agite
— interjection to attract attention
Māori:
rē
— interjection to attract attention
Māori:
ināia
— interjection to attract attention
Marathi:
बघ
(bagh)
— interjection to attract attention
Marathi:
बघा
(baghā)
— interjection to attract attention
Nǀuu:
nǀaa
— interjection to attract attention
Nǀuu:
nǀii
— interjection to attract attention
Polish:
słuchaj
— interjection to attract attention
Romanian:
ia
— interjection to attract attention
Romanian:
uite
— interjection to attract attention
Russian:
смотри́
(smotrí)
— interjection to attract attention
Russian:
смотри́те
(smotríte)
— interjection to attract attention
Spanish:
mirar
— interjection to attract attention
Swedish:
titta
— interjection to attract attention
Arabic:
نَظْرَة
(naẓra)
— action of looking
Arabic:
نَظْرَة
(naẓra)
— action of looking
Arabic:
شوفة
(šōfa)
— action of looking
Basque:
so
— action of looking
Belarusian:
по́гляд
(póhljad)
— action of looking
Belarusian:
по́зірк
(pózirk)
— action of looking
Bulgarian:
по́глед
(pógled)
— action of looking
Catalan:
ullada
— action of looking
Catalan:
cop d'ull
— action of looking
Catalan:
mirada
— action of looking
Chinese Mandarin:
目光
(mùguāng)
— action of looking
Chinese Mandarin:
一見 /一见
(yījiàn)
— action of looking
Czech:
pohled
— action of looking
Dutch:
blik
— action of looking
Finnish:
katsominen
— action of looking
French:
regard
— action of looking
Galician:
ollada
— action of looking
Georgian:
ყურება
(q̇ureba)
— action of looking
Georgian:
ცქერა
(ckera)
— action of looking
Georgian:
ჭვრეტა
(č̣vreṭa)
— action of looking
German:
Blick
— action of looking
Greek:
βλέμμα
(vlémma)
— action of looking
Greek:
ματιά
(matiá)
— action of looking
Ancient Greek:
βλέμμα
(blémma)
— action of looking
Hebrew:
מבט
(mabát)
— action of looking
Hungarian:
pillantás
— action of looking
Italian:
occhiata
— action of looking
Italian:
sguardo
— action of looking
Italian:
aspetto
— action of looking
Japanese:
一見
(ikken)
— action of looking
Japanese:
一目
— action of looking
Korean:
일견
(ilgyeon)
— action of looking
Macedonian:
поглед
(pogled)
— action of looking
Norwegian Bokmål:
blikk
— action of looking
Norwegian Nynorsk:
blikk
— action of looking
Polish:
pogląd
— action of looking
Portuguese:
olhada
— action of looking
Romanian:
privire
— action of looking
Romanian:
vedere
— action of looking
Romansh:
egliada
— action of looking
Romansh:
iglieada
— action of looking
Romansh:
igleida
— action of looking
Romansh:
öglieda
— action of looking
Romansh:
sguard
— action of looking
Russian:
взгляд
(vzgljad)
— action of looking
Scots:
leuk
— action of looking
Scots:
luke
— action of looking
Scots:
luik
— action of looking
Scottish Gaelic:
sùil
— action of looking
Sicilian:
taliata
— action of looking
Sicilian:
ucchiata
— action of looking
Slovak:
pohľad
— action of looking
Spanish:
vistazo
— action of looking
Spanish:
ojeada
— action of looking
Spanish:
mirada
— action of looking
Swahili:
angalia
— action of looking
Swedish:
blick
— action of looking
Telugu:
చూపు
(cūpu)
— action of looking
Tocharian B:
pilko
— action of looking
Turkish:
bakma
— action of looking
Turkish:
bakış
— action of looking
Ottoman Turkish:
باقم
(bakım)
— action of looking
Ottoman Turkish:
نگاه
(nigâh)
— action of looking
Ukrainian:
по́гляд
(póhljad)
— action of looking
Yiddish:
קוק
(kuk)
— action of looking
Zazaki:
bıvin
— action of looking
Zazaki:
bıase
— action of looking
Afrikaans:
kyk
— physical appearance
Arabic:
مَرْأىً
(marʔan)
— physical appearance
Arabic:
مَرْآة
(marʔāh)
— physical appearance
Armenian:
արտաքին
(artakʻin)
— physical appearance