Looking

Definition: Looking

Looking

Adjective

1. Appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk".

Noun

1. The act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him".

2. The act of searching visually.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "looking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Looking

Dearness

Phrase: prices looking up; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; le cout en ote le gout; vel prece vel pretio; too high a price to pay, not worth it.

Expectation

Adjective: expectant; expecting; Verb: in expectation; Noun: on the watch; (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to.

Hope

Probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored.

The Past

Retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory. -- originally - preterition; priority; --

Looking back; Verb: retrospective, retroactive; archaeological; n.

Crosswords: Looking

If you're looking for female companionship, we can make arrangements that'll insure total privacy and-- (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Looking forward to it. (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Do you just want to lose weight, or are you looking to increase strength and flexibility as well (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

How could you be looking over your documents, if they're in your briefcase (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner.)

I'm looking for a thug that'll kill for Brat (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Looking for a brand new day (Looking For A Place To Land; performing artist: Dakota Moon)

What I'm looking for ("I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"; performing artist: U2)

And you're looking for the answer in her eyes (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC)

Your beautiful eyes looking deep into mine (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

Never do wrong when people are looking. (references; author: Mark Twain)

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track. (references; author: unknown)

The church is looking for better methods. God is looking for better men. (references; author: unknown)

No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown)

No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown)

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1974)

Looking for Me (1970)

The Looking Glass War (1969)

Looking for Mushrooms (1967)

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)

Looking For A New Love (performing artist: Jody Watley)

Looking Through Patient Eyes (performing artist: P.M. Dawn)

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (performing artist: U2)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Best of Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass/the Hunting of the Snark/a Tangled Tale/Phantasmagoria/Nonsense from Letter (reference)

• The Collected Stories of Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass/Phantasmagoria (reference)

• Looking at Totem Poles (reference)

• Looking Forward: Life in the Twentieth Century As Predicted in the Pages of American Magazines from 1895 to 1905. (reference)

• Your Best Face: Looking Your Best Without Plastic Surgery (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Directions : Looking Ahead In Healthcare (reference)

• Women Looking Ahead (reference)

• Looking For An Author (reference)

• Looking Back (reference)

• Looking Forward (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Edward Burns Box Set - The Brothers McMullen, She's The One, No Looking Back (reference)

• Farscape Season 1, Vol. 9 - Through the Looking Glass / A Bug's Life (reference)

• Looking for Richard (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Looking Back: Very Best of the Mgm Years (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shows poster with an artistically rendered profile of a woman looking toward small sword with slogans: "Cancer In Its Early Stages Is Curable" and "American Society For The Control Of Cancer.". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The breast of a black woman is exposed and highlighted. Some scoring is visible on the breast below the nipple marking the tumor area. Surgeons are visible looking over the patient examining the patient. They will mark and place tubes for later implantation of radioactive iridium seeds. Wider view is also available. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

People looking at AIDS quilt. Credit: CDC.

In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States. This field technician is looking for larvae in standing water containers. Credit: CDC.

Looking far away and far back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has found some ... Credit: NASA.

Looking like a colorful holiday card, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a ... Credit: NASA.

Kassa Inlet looking to the north. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking into the crater of Mt. Erebus The view from a helicopter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from a small boat at mid-span looking to the north. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Alcatraz Island, the Oakland Bay Bridge, and the San Francisco skyline as seen from a small boat looking south. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Had but this one thing been well considered, without looking any deeper into the matter, it might perhaps have kept men from running into those gross mistakes, they have made, about this power of parents; which, however it might, without any great harshness, bear the name of absolute dominion, and regal authority, when under the title of paternal power it seemed appropriated to the father, would yet have founded but oddly, and in the very name shewn the absurdity, if this supposed absolute power over children had been called parental; and thereby have discovered, that it belonged to the mother too: for it will but very ill serve the turn of those men, who contend so much for the absolute power and authority of the fatherhood, as they call it, that the mother should have any share in it; and it would have but ill supported the monarchy they contend for, when by the very name it appeared, that that fundamental authority, from whence they would derive their government of a single person only, was not placed in one, but two persons jointly. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The proof that the little prince existed is that he laughed, and tha the was looking for a sheep

She was still looking at him with the most speaking amazement

I returned the book, looking, I suppose, a little blank, as the lady laughed merrily at my discomfiture

The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner, and sat looking up at Peter, who had a book before him.

All this time, Roger Chillingworth was looking at the minister with the grave and intent regard of a physician towards his patient

He was dressed in a blouse which was in part a capote, was restless and daring, looking behind and before as he went

Simon Moonan told him not to because the prefect was looking.

Ma walked to the door and stood looking out.

Whereupon the huge creature trod short, and looking round about under him for some time, at last espied me as I lay on the ground

With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It involves looking directly at the larynx. (references)

It may seem as though they are looking through a tunnel. (references)

They aren’t looking for just one cause for all cases of autism. (references)

Business

Delta reported it was looking for similar gains. (references)

They must be looking at local partnership and representation. (references)

Tricon will be looking to develop KFC over the next few years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

Police claimed that they were looking for criminals and illegal weapons, but legal rights groups asserted that it was a measure designed to discourage or limit opposition campaigning in the electoral areas. (references)

South Africa

The investigation examined selected publications over a limited period, looking at the problem of subliminal racism and the disproportionate representation of whites in media ownership and newsroom staffing. (references)

Slovak Republic

The STV news program promised to hire a Roma reporter and claimed that they had been looking actively for members of the Roma minority to work as newscasters; however, they had not hired a Roma by year's end. (references)

Economic History

Norway

It is looking, however to get more for its money. (references)

Turkey

Several Turkish companies are already looking for partners. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi businessmen are still looking for good U.S. franchisers. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

Police sources later said they had been looking for weapons. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Newspapers frequently published the appeals of families looking for their children or relatives. (references)

Ghana

Security forces conducted a number of searches of the homes of opposition party members, ostensibly looking for illegal arms caches or evidence of corrupt activities. (references)

Political Economy

Panama

With over 100,000 adherents, the Arnulfistas have attracted people looking for jobs or favors from the government. (references)

ALGERIA

Algeria offers significant opportunities to U.S. firms with a long-term perspective looking to export, to invest, or to form joint ventures. (references)

BOLIVIA

Unions are not free from influence by political parties, but organized labor is increasingly looking outside the established party structure to represent its interests. (references)

Trade

El Salvador

The textile manufacturers association is currently looking into the possibility of applying ISO 14000 standards to its industry. (references)

Argentina

The program was designed for companies looking to improve competitiveness by either opening a new manufacturing plant or expanding an existing one. (references)

Czech Rep

The Czech government is looking to improve the sector's performance through further bank privatization, stricter bank oversight and simplified bankruptcy laws. (references)

Travel

Belgium

Americans looking for jobs in Belgium are almost never issued working permits. (references)

Spain

The thieves typically divert the driver's attention by pointing out a mechanical problem then steal items from the vehicle while the driver is looking away. (references)

Spain

The weather in the northern coastal regions (looking onto the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay) is temperate and generally rainy throughout the year, and temperatures are neither very low in winter nor very high in summer. (references)

Women

Peru

The victims also have accused judges of looking more favorably on rape victims who were virgins prior to the rape and of believing that a woman who was raped must have enticed her attacker. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

In March Henriette Lagou, Yai's replacement as Minister of Family, Women, and Children's Affairs, reported that women looking for help with family problems, such as forced marriage and domestic violence, approached the committee every day; a few committee members visited the families to mediate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Looking for grief

Looking downward

Expressions using "looking": be looking forward ♦ be never tired of looking ♦ be never tired of looking at ♦ best looking girl ♦ common looking ♦ forward looking infra red ♦ good looking ♦ he is looking homicidal ♦ i am looking for a room ♦ last looking ♦ Lewis Carroll's looking glass ♦ looking after ♦ looking at ♦ looking at it as a whole ♦ looking back ♦ looking for ♦ looking for advice ♦ looking forward ♦ looking forward to ♦ looking glass ♦ looking glass tree ♦ looking through ♦ looking up ♦ poor looking ♦ savage looking ♦ seedy looking ♦ shabby looking ♦ shady looking customer ♦ side looking airborne radar ♦ tell by looking ♦ vertical looking radar ♦ way of looking at things ♦ you are looking very well!. Additional references.

Beginning with "looking": looking-after, looking-at-the-pictures, looking-back, looking-elsewhere, Looking-glass, looking-glass plant, looking-glasses, looking-tired.

Ending with "looking": amiable-looking, anxious-looking, archaic-looking, aristocratic-looking, athletic-looking, attractive-looking, awkward-looking, battered-looking, benign-looking, best-looking, capable-looking, cheap-looking, clear-looking, comfortable-looking, dangerous-looking, dead-looking, decent-looking, delicate-looking, delicious-looking, depressed-looking, devastating-looking, different-looking, dirty-looking, distinguished-looking, dubious-looking, dull-looking, dusty-looking, efficient-looking, elderly-looking, english-looking, exhausted-looking, expensive-looking, fabulous-looking, familiar-looking, fearsome-looking, ferocious-looking, fierce-looking, fit-looking, foreign-looking, fragile-looking, frail-looking, great-looking, grim-looking, guilty-looking, harassed-looking, hard-looking, harmless-looking, healthy-looking, heavy-looking, impressive-looking, innocent-looking, innocuous-looking, intelligent-looking, interesting-looking, inward-looking, jolly-looking, kindly-looking, likely-looking, lugubrious-looking, mean-looking, modern-looking, mournful-looking, nasty-looking, natural-looking, nervous-looking, new-looking, nice-looking, normal-looking, odd-looking, official-looking, old-looking, ordinary-looking, outward-looking, over-looking, plain-looking, pleasant-looking, powerful-looking, professional-looking, promising-looking, prosperous-looking, realistic-looking, re-looking, respectable-looking, rough-looking, sad-looking, serious-looking, severe-looking, similar-looking, sinister-looking, slick-looking, soft-looking, solid-looking, sophisticated-looking, stern-looking, strange-looking, strong-looking, studious-looking, substantial-looking, suspicious-looking, tired-looking, tough-looking, traditional-looking, ugly-looking, uncomfortable-looking, unusual-looking, venerable-looking, vicious-looking, villainous-looking, weary-looking, weird-looking, wicked-looking, wild-looking, worried-looking, young-looking, youthful-looking.

Containing "looking": be good-looking in a slick way, good-looking girl, good-looking woman, good-looking-the, nice-looking girl, nice-looking young man, through-the-looking-glass.

Afrikaans

soek (am looking for, look, look for, seek). (various references)

Albanian

shpresë (expectance, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, looking for, looking forward, prospect, resort), pasqyrë (digest, glass, looking glass, mirror, reflector, review, revue), nuk lodhem të shikoj (be never tired of looking), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), interesant (curiously, entertaining, enthralling, good looking, interesting, interestingly, juicy, living, nutty, picturesque, sapid), i pashëm (dashing, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, personable, proper, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), i nurshëm (charming, good looking), i bukur (airy fairy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, bonny, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, pinup, pleasant, pretty), dëshirë (aim, appetite, craving, desire, hunger, liking, looking for, love, notion, penchant, pleasure, prayer, want, wish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرآة (glass, looking glass, mirror), ‏وسيمة (beautiful, good looking), ‏وسيم (bonny, comeliness, comely, cunning, dainty, dapper, encore, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, pretty), ‏ترقب (await, carry on, expect, expectancy, expectation, looking forward, wait), ‏تشوق (look forward, looking forward), ‏جميل المظهر (good looking), ‏جميل الهيئة (good looking), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, shapely, sightly, sweet), ‏أنيق الملابس (good looking), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, quest, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, search, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try, ventilate), ‏بائس المظهر (shabby looking). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), търсене (demand, hunting, looking for, market, quest, request, requisition, research, run, scanning, search, seeking, solicitation), красив (beauteous, beautiful, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, personable, well favored, well-favoured), очакване с нетърпение (looking for, looking forward), огледало (glass, keeking-glass, looking glass, mirror), не мога да се нагледам (be never tired of looking). (various references)

Catalan

mirall (looking-glass, mirror), buscant (looking for). (various references)

Chinese 

看 (Looked). (various references)

Czech

zrcadlo (looking glass, mirror), tváří se jako vrah (he is looking homicidal), pohledný (comely, good looking, personable), pìkný (fine, good looking, handsome, nice, nice-looking, pretty, specious), neutažený (looking for), nepřesný (impressionistic, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, looking forward, unfaithful, untrue, vague, woolly), nebýt unavený pozorovat co (be never tired of looking at), krásný (beautiful, fair, fine, good looking, neat), hezký (attractive, considerable, fair, fine, good, good looking, gorgeous, handsome, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty). (various references)

Danish

undersøgelse af børns visuelle diskriminering (preferential looking), spejl (looking-glass, mirror), SLAR (side looking radar, side-looking airborne radar, side-looking radar, SLAR), side looking radar (side looking radar), med redskaber ophaengt under traktoren kan en mand goere arbejdet alene (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work), hvis man soeger efter revner i cementitten,kan man finde selv meget svage spor af kolddeformation (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), fremadrettet infrarødt udstyr (FLIR, forward looking infra red), forventet langsigtet gennemsnitlig differensomkostning (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), FLIR (FLIR, forward looking infra red). (various references)

Dutch

zeer vage sporen van koudvervormen kunnen ook worden gevonden door te zoeken naar scheuren in het cementiet (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), vooruitkijkend infra-roodsysteem (FLIR, forward looking infra red), spiegel (looking-glass, mirror, poop, poopdeck, stern), slar,side looking radar (side looking radar), op lange termijn verwachte gemiddelde incrementele kosten (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), methode van de voorkeursblik (preferential looking), de grote vrije hoogte en de wespentaille van der rijenteelttrekker is van belang voor de montage van verzorgingswerktuigen en het werken in de rijrichting (the very high clearance and wasp waist of the rowcrop tractor are important for mounting crop cultivation implements and for working while looking ahead), bij het aanbouwen van werktuigen onder de trekker kan de trekkerbestuurder het werk alleen af (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work). (various references)

Esperanto

vide. (various references)

Faeroese

spegil (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

Finnish

peili (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

French

regardant. (various references)

Frisian

spegel (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

Galician

buscando (looking for). (various references)

German

sehend (seeing, sighted, viewing), schaünd, aussehend. (various references)

Greek 

καθρέπτησ (looking glass, mirror), όμορφοσ (beautiful, buxom, good looking, handsome), ραντάρ πλευρικής κάλυψης (side looking radar), γυρεύω δωμάτιο (I am looking for a room), ξεπεσμένοσ (impoverished, ruined, seedy looking), μέθοδος του προτιμησιακού βλέμματος (preferential looking), μελλοντοστραφές μακροπρόθεσμο μέσο οριακό κόστος (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), μελλοντοστραφής μακροπρόθεσμη μέση οριακή δαπάνη (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), που φαίνεται κακός (mean looking), που φαίνεται άγριος (mean looking), η κοιλιακή ζεύξη των εργαλείων επιτρέπει την εργασία,εν κινήσει προς τα εμπρός,από έναν μόνο άνθρωπο (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work), εύμορφοσ (bonny, good looking, pretty, pulchritudinous, shapely, sightly, well favored), ασθενή ίχνη ψυχρηλασίας μπορούν ν'αποκαλυφθούν κατά την έρευνα των ρωγμών ενός σεμεντίτη (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), το μεγάλο διάκενο από το έδαφος και το μικρό μέγεθος των ελκυστήρων που δύνανται να φέρουν εργαλεία ευνοούν την κοιλιακή συναρμολόγηση των (the very high clearance and wasp waist of the rowcrop tractor are important for mounting crop cultivation implements and for working while looking ahead). (various references)

Hebrew 

הצצה (glancing, glimpse, peeping), הסתכלות (contemplation, gazing, observation), ראיה (evidence, seeing, sight, testimony, vision, visualization, witnesses). (various references)

Hungarian

szép (beautiful, fair, fine, good, handsome, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty). (various references)

Icelandic

spegill (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

Indonesian

pelirikan (glancing). (various references)

Irish

féachaint. (various references)

Italian

l'attacco in basso degli attrezzi consente il lavoro in marcia avanti,con un solo uomo (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work), l'altezza libera sul suolo e la carenatura a vespa della trattrice porta-attrezzi è importante per l'attacco inferiore degli attrezzi di coltivazione e per lavorare a visuale libera anteriore (the very high clearance and wasp waist of the rowcrop tractor are important for mounting crop cultivation implements and for working while looking ahead), La ricerca delle fessurazioni nella cementite permette di ritrovare tracce anche molto deboli di deformazione a freddo (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), specchio di Lewis Carroll (Lewis Carroll's looking glass), specchio (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, mirror, speculum), prestante (good looking, handsome, stately), intravvedente (looking through), infrarosso a visione in avanti (FLIR, forward looking infra red), costo incrementato medio prospettivo di lungo periodo (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), cerco (I am looking for, look for, look for something, lookup, search, seek), cercando (looking for), bello (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, kind, lovely, nice, pleasant, pretty, sheen, sightly, smart, well), aspettare (abide, advert, await, be looking forward, bide, expect, pay, pay attention, pay attention to, wait, wait for, watch out for). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

私淑 (adoring, looking up to), 介抱 (looking after, nursing), 傍観 (looking on, remaining a spectator). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こうこ (anxiety, excellent, finance corporation, fine, for ever, from ancient times, historic, looking back, love of antiquities, pertinent, the public, the world, unprecedented, worry), うえむき (looking upward, upturn, upward tendency), ぶっしょく (looking for a particular person or thing), ふぎょう (actions, being obliging, looking up and down), つうらん (glancing through, looking over), にらめっこ (game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first, staring-outgame), せいし (authentic history, check, chief delegate, control, family name, filature, full name, heir, history, imperial command, inhibition, life and death, looking straight ahead, meditation, oath, paper making or manufacturing, pledge, repose, restraint, senior envoy, silk reeling, sperm, spinning, standing still, stillness, successor, viewing sincerely, vow, written oath), せわしげ (looking restless), せわ (aid, assistance, help, looking after), かくしゅ (all sorts, beheading, dismissal, every kind, looking forward to, loyalty to, nuclide), かかん (between equipment, bold, coming of age ceremony, corolla, determined, garland, getting a bird's eye view, looking down on, Milky Way, resolute, wreath), かいほう (breakwater, bulletin, circular, circulating letter, coast battery, convalescence, emancipation, evolution, extraction of roots, good news, idea borne in mind, liberalization, liberation, looking after, nursing, open, release, reply, report, solution, throw open), えんけん (distant view, looking into distance, watchtower), こしょくそうぜん (antique-looking, looking hoary with patina), うこさべん (hesitation, looking to the right and left), れきらん (looking around), わがものがお (like one's own, looking or acting as if one owned the place), わきめ (eyes of an onlooker, looking aside), わきみ (looking aside, looking from the side), むしもころさぬ (innocent-looking, looking as though butter would not melt in the mouth), よそみ (looking aside, looking away), じきらん (respectfully looking at), みあきる (to be tired of looking at), はため (looking on by an outsider), とおみ (distant view, looking into distance, watchtower), てきし (looking onas hostile), ちょくし (imperial messenger, imperial order, imperial will, looking someone in the eyes, taking a straight look at something), かんし (a watch, article, being on the lookout, Chinese astrology, Chinese poetry, dissuasion, forceps, guarding, inspection, looking around or about, observation, prepared to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord, ring finger, sexagenary cycle, surveillance), しじ (apprentice oneself, dead or stillborn child, directions, indication, instruction, looking up, maintenance, personal affairs, study under, support, the four seasons), ぎょうし (fixation, gaze, looking up to, revering, solidified oil, stare), おかめ (bystander, looking on by an outsider, onlooker, plain-looking woman), おかみ (authorities, Emperor, government, hostess, landlady, looking on by an outsider, madam, mistress, proprietress, wife), おんびき (looking up a word or kanji by its reading), おとこぶり (good looking, manliness), ししゅく (adoring, lodging, looking up to, putting up), くびをながくして (eagerly, expectantly, looking forward), きぼう (16th night of the month, aspiration, hope, hoping for, looking forward to, ruse, trick, wish), くさいものにふた (hushing up a problem, looking the other way), しりめ (looking down upon or askance at), しゅうしゅぼうかん (looking on with folded arms, remaining a passive onlooker), しゅうらん (grasping, looking all around, winning over), うろん (fishy, suspicious looking), きやせ (looking slender in clothing), うわむき (looking upward, upturn, upward tendency), ざし (looking on unconcernedly, remaining an idle spectator), ひやかし (browsing, chaffing, jeering, just looking at goods, merely asking the price, raillery, window-shopping), まちどおしい (looking forward to), ぼうかん (all over town, hoodlum, looking on, protection against cold, remaining a spectator, ruffian), ぼうし (a certain publication, cap worn by masked dancer, certain person, check, dead child, eye, hat, looking aside, looking from the side, one's late elder sister, prevention, pupil, spinning, spun cotton, unnamed person), さくらがり (looking for or at cherry blossoms), さいてん (changing directions, festival, grading, looking over, marking, turning around). (various references)

Korean 

봄 (seeing, sighting, spring, Springs, Vernal, Watching). (various references)

Lombard

specc (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

Manx

jeeaghyn (behold, eye, good looks, look, look forward, manifest, seeing, watch). (various references)

Norwegian

speil (glass, looking-glass, mirror), ser (am looking, see). (various references)

Papiamen

spil (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

Pidgin English

look. (various references)

Pig Latin

ookinglay.(various references)

Portuguese

olhando. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

olhando. (various references)

Romanian

tip suspect (shady looking customer), speranţe (looking for), privindu-l ca un tot (looking at it as a whole), oglindã (glass, image, looking glass, mirror, speculum), individ suspect (shady looking customer), frumuşel (comely, dinky, gently, good looking, pretty, simply, slowly, tidy), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), drãguţ (attractive, beloved, charming, comely, cute, dainty, darling, dinky, good looking, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, sweet, sweetheart), chipeş (finely-shaped, good looking, handsome, personable, well favored, well-favoured, well-made), cãutãri (looking for), bine (advantage, allright, aright, blessing, boon, fine, fortune, gain, good, good looking, honorable, honourable, interest, okay, right, rightly, stately, that's settled, up to the mark, well, well then), arãţi foarte bine (you are looking very well), înfãţişare sãlbaticã (savage looking). (various references)

Russian 

смотреть (behold, consider, deem, eye, look, look at, look on, looked, regard, see, view, watch). (various references)

Scottish

faicinn (beholding : rifhaicinn, seeing), coimhead (appear, consider, deem, emerge, look, observing, perform, regard, view, watch, watching), amharc (v.n. looking). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lepuškast (comely, good looking, pretty), zgodan (appropriate, apt, attractive, comely, convenient, felicitous, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, occasional, opportune, pat, suitable), traženje (hunt, hunting, looking for, pursuit, quest, request, requirement, search, solicitation, tracer), ogledalo (keeking-glass, looking glass, mirror), neumorno gledati u (be never tired of looking at), neumorno gledati (be never tired of looking). (various references)

Slovene

iscem (looking for). (various references)

Somali

raadinayaa (looking for). (various references)

Spanish

mirando. (various references)

Swahili

ninatafuta (I am looking for), kioo (glass, looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

Swedish

spegel (glass, keeking-glass, looking glass, looking-glass, mirror, panel). (various references)

Tagalog

hinahanap. (various references)

Tswana

senka. (various references)

Turkish

yakışıklı (comely, good looking, handsome, personable, shapely, sightly, smart, stunner, well favored, well-favoured), seyretme (contemplation, looking at, observation, watch, watching), sıradan görünümlü (common looking), iyi görünümlü (good looking), ileriyi gören (clear-sighted, far sighted, farseeing, farsighted, forward-looking, longheaded, prescient, quick-eyed), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), gösterişsiz (chaste, conservative, fluffy, homely, homespun, modest, plain, poor looking, rustic, simple, sober, undemanding, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), ayna (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, mirror, peeper, reflector). (various references)

Turkmen 

nurana (good looking, handsome). (various references)

Ukrainian

гарний (bonny, good, good looking, goodly, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, well), вродливий (beautiful, bonny, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, personable), очікування (expectance, expectancy, hover, looking for, wait), люстро (looking glass), привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, well-favoured, winning, winsome), пошуки (hunting, looking for, nose, prospect, prospecting, prospection, search), дзеркало (glass, looking glass, mirror, speculum). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xinh (bonny, fine, lovely, nice-looking, prettily, pretty), sự tìn kiếm (looking-for), sự mong đợi (longingness, looking-for), sự hy vọng (anticipation, looking-for), gương soi (looking-glass), đáng yêu (amiable, cunning, cute, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice-looking). (various references)

Welsh

drych (looking-glass, mirror, object, pattern, spectacle). (various references)

Xhosa

ndifunana (I've been looking). (various references)

Yucatec

neen (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

aspectus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "looking": onlooking, overlooking, relooking. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Looking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alooking, Gookin, lokeing, lokking, Lokonga, Lokono, looing, lookeg, looki, lookin, lookings, looning, loxing, Lukin, lukkin, Lukoji, ooking. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: logion, looing.

-2 letters: igloo, klong, lingo, logoi.

-3 letters: gink, gook, goon, ikon, kiln, kilo, king, kino, kolo, ling, link, lino, lion, logo, loin, long, look, loon, noil, nolo, nook, oink, olio.

-4 letters: gin, goo, ilk, ink, ion, kin, koi, lin, log, loo, nil, nog, noo, oil.

-5 letters: go, in, li, lo, no, on.

+2 letters: inglenook, onlooking, relooking.

+3 letters: inglenooks, toolmaking.

+4 letters: bookselling, bootlicking, coldcocking, forelocking, kinesiology, overlooking, provokingly, toolmakings.

+5 letters: bloodsucking, booksellings, kremlinology, roadblocking.