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outlook

[ out-look ]

noun

  1. the view or prospect from a particular place.

    Synonyms: scene

  2. mental attitude or view; point of view:

    one's outlook on life.

    Synonyms: approach, position, viewpoint, attitude

  3. prospect of the future:

    the political outlook.

    Synonyms: scene

  4. the place from which an observer looks out; lookout.
  5. the act or state of looking out.
  6. a watch kept; vigilance; lookout:

    a careful outlook to prevent forest fires.



outlook

/ ˈaʊtˌlʊk /

noun

  1. a mental attitude or point of view
  2. the probable or expected condition or outcome of something

    the weather outlook

  3. the view from a place
  4. view or prospect
  5. the act or state of looking out


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Word History and Origins

Origin of outlook1

First recorded in 1660–70; out- + look

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Example Sentences

And surprisingly, gender may also play a role in your bleak winter outlook.

Among other things, I wanted to see what effect their line of work had had on their general outlook.

At an early screening at Liberty University, a Saving Christmas co-producer, one student left with a new outlook.

His outlook on life is totally different and so is the way he feels valued.

Payne said her entire outlook on life changed when she started taking female hormones.

Modified and amended as their system is in its practical application, it still largely conditions our outlook to-day.

The high tower of the keep, several hundred feet above the sea, afforded scope for a most magnificent outlook.

This strong-minded man, who thought things out for himself, impressed Tchaikovsky, and changed his political outlook.

A resigned little room, like Sara Lee, resigned to being tucked away in a corner and to having no particular outlook.

This outlook into the supreme domain of nature lifts us, for the first time in our work, definitely above the lower world of life.

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