Overlook

Definition: Overlook

Overlook

Noun

1. A high place affording a good view.

Verb

1. Look past, fail to notice.

2. Be oriented in a certain direction; "The house looks out on a tennis court"; "The apartment overlooks the Hudson".

3. Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten".

4. Look down on; "The villa dominates the town".

5. Watch over.

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

Date "overlook" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Overlook \O`ver*look"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Overlooked; present participle verb or noun Overlooking.]. (references)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Overlook

Direction

Superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate; matronize; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule; (command); have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.

Disrespect

Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat.

Forgiveness

Verb: forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at; (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.

Inattention

Verb: be inattentive; Adjective: overlook, disregard; pass by; (neglect) not observe; think little of.

Indiscrimination

Verb: not discriminate; overlook; (neglect) a distinction: confound, confuse.

Neglect

Overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at;gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller.

Crosswords: Overlook

About the Overlook Hotel (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Let's not overlook the fact that he didn't eat me. (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley)

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Books

• Horror (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series) (reference)

• Science Fiction (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series) (reference)

• The Overlook Illustrated Dictionary of Nautical Terms (reference)

• The Western (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mississippi Overlook (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Don't Overlook Salvation (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Cave Rock overlook at Lake Tahoe White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Westend Road overlook of Fortuna Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Aspen overlook on Mount Lemmon in the Coronado National Forest the first day of evacuee reentry following the Bullock Fire. Credit: Unknown.

RecreationScenicBikerShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River DistrictBald Mountain TrailKetchum Overlook. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker.

(left-right) Roaring Springs Ranch manager Stacy Davies, Secretary Babbitt, Elaine Zielinski, and Governor Kitzhaber at Big Indian Gorge overlook. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

Stacie Davies, the manager of Roaring Springs Ranch, and Secretary Bruce Babbitt at Big Indian Gorge overlook. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

Overlook into mountainous area. Mahogany & Unit. Credit: Unknown.

Kiger Gorge Overlook. Credit: Harmon.

Quarry Cove overlook wall at Yaquina Head. Credit: BLM.

The Wedge Overlook, San Rafael Swell. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Therefore, it is important that physicians carefully analyze all "pituitary tumors" removed from patients with acromegaly in order not to overlook the possibility that a tumor elsewhere in the body is causing the disorder. (references)

Business

As a result and similar to the United States, supermarkets and other food stores are selling more precooked, ready-to-eat meals that people can pick up on their way home from work. Although precise figures are not available, the phenomenon, though not as widespread as in the United States, is catching on fast and is creating a market niche which U.S. manufacturers of commercial cooking equipment should not overlook. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

But don't overlook the Old Economy - Saab just announced that it will build the wings for the super-jumbo Airbus. (references)

Portugal

Most importers and distributors have offices in Porto and US firms looking to appoint a distributor in Portugal should not overlook this fact. (references)

Bahrain

BATELCO Middle East E.C. (BMEC) was formed and incorporated in 1998 as a holding company for BATELCO to overlook and manage its overseas investment. (references)

Travel

Taiwan

Foreign visitors should not overlook the fragrant teas for which Taiwan is justly famous. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "overlook": Overlook-Page Manor.

Afrikaans

agterweë laat (fail, leave, leave out, neglect, omit). (various references)

Albanian

vë re (behold, bend, cognize, descry, espy, notice, reck, remark), shoh mbi, shoh (behold, catch a glimpse of, catch sight of, descry, eye, give a look, look, see, sight, view, witness), shikoj (eye, glance, glance over, keep an eye on, look, see, sight, take a gander, take a look at, view, watch), nuk vë re (disregard, look over, Miss, overpass, pass by, pass over, pretermit), nuk shoh, ngrihem (ascend, get up, jump, proceed, raise, regelate, revolt, rise, stand, stand up, stand up to, take off, take wing, tower, turn out, upheave), mbikëqyr (oversee, supervise, watch), marr me sy, lartësohem (arise, ascend, mount up, soar, tower), ka pamje nga, gogësij (eructate, gape, Keck, miss one's chance, yawn), dal në. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسى (cause to forget, forget, leave, miss, omit, sink, slur, unlearn), ‏غفل عن, ‏تغاضى (condone, connive, disregard, excuse, forget, look over, part with, pass, pass over, slur, wink), ‏سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, charm, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest), ‏طل (dew, dominate, look out), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway), ‏أصاب بالعين, ‏أشرف على (overhang, oversee, preside, supervise), ‏راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look after, look on, mind, monitor, observe, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, tend, watch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

урочасвам, гледам със снизхождение на, гледам от високо място, гледам (eye, gape, lamp, look, look at, look on, look out, look through, manage, mind, nurse, open, point, regard, see, see into, tend, view, watch), отминавам (pass by, pass on, pass over, subside), недоглеждам, не забелязвам (pass over), надзиравам (inspect, manage, oversee, stand over, superintend, supervise), затварям си очите за, прощавам (absolve, excuse, forgive, pardon), пропускам (admit, drop, fail, let in, let slip by, lose, neglect, omit, overleap, overpass, pass over, pass up, run, skip, throw away), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, neglect, overpass, pass over, pass up, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away), игнорирам (blink, cold shoulder, cushion, ignore, set aside), извинявам (excuse, justify, palliate, pardon), издигам се над (overtop, surmount). (various references)

Chinese 

俯视 (Overlooked, Overlooking), 俯視 . (various references)

Czech

prozkoumat (analyse, examine, explore, go into, go through, inspect, look into, probe, reconnoitre, scan, scrutinize, survey), prozkoumání (examination), prominout (condone, excuse, forgive, palliate, pardon, remit), prohlédnout (examine, go through, inspect, Miss, peruse, review, test, visit), přehlédnutí (goby, oversight, revision, slip), přehlédnout (look over, revise, survey), nedbat. (various references)

Danish

udelade (leave out, omit, release). (various references)

Dutch

verzaken (abjure, abnegate, leave out, neglect, omit), uitlaten (leave out, let off, omit, release), nalaten (bequeath, fail, leave, leave behind, leave out, make a will, neglect, omit). (various references)

Esperanto

preterlasi (leave out, omit). (various references)

Farsi 

مسلطیامشرف بودن بر, چشم پوشی کردن (Connive), چشم انداز (Landscape, Lookout, Outlook, Panorama, Perspective, Prospect, Scene, Scenery, View, Vista). (various references)

Finnish

sivuuttaa (go by, pass, supersede, supplant), ei huomata (take no notice). (various references)

French

oublier, omettre (pass over), surveiller (oversee), poste d'observation, porter atteinte par yeux, point d'observation, passer sur (paper over), négliger (pass over, pass over smth.), laisser passer, laisser échapper, fermer les yeux sur, donner sur, avoir vue sur. (various references)

Frisian

weilitte (leave out, omit). (various references)

German

überschauen (grasp, to overlook). (various references)

Greek 

παραβλέπω (condone, disregard, ignore, let it pass, make allowances for, oversee, pass by, slight). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעמעם (blur, darken, dim, mute, obscure, tarnish), לחלוש על (command, dominate), להתעלם (disregard, ignore, neglect, override, pass over, vanish), להשקף על (be seen, be visible), להעלים עין (connive, turn a blind eye). (various references)

Hungarian

lenéz (look down on, talk down to, to contemn, to despise, to disdain, to disparage, to scorn), felügyel (inspect, invigilate, oversee, superintend, supervise, to control, to mind, to see after, to superintend, to supervise, to tend), elkerüli figyelmét. (various references)

Indonesian

pangling (fail to recognize), memandang ke bawah, memaafkan (condone), melupakan (bury, forget). (various references)

Italian

trascurare (disdain, disobey, disregard, ignore, neglect, omit, skip), tollerare (abide, bear, endure, put, put up with, stand, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate), sovrastare (be imminent, forthcoming, hang over, overhang, overtop, stand above, surpass, to be imminent, to be in store, to impend, top), sorvegliare (guard, look after, oversee, supervise, survey, watch, watch over), non rilevare, lasciarsi sfuggire (slip off), ispezionare (inspect, oversee, survey, visit), guardare dall'alto, godere la vista di, dominare (be on top of things, command, control, control oneself, curb, dominate, govern, Lord, master, order, overbear, overmaster, overrule, predominate, restrain, rule, subdue, sway, walk over), controllare (audit, check, check up on, command, control, control oneself, examine, govern, inspect, monitor, school, supervise, verify, vet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見落し , 見落 , 目溢し (connivance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

めこぼし (connivance), みおとし (oversight, thing left unnoticed). (various references)

Korean 

바라보십시요. (various references)

Manx

jeeaghyn neose er, jarrood (forget, forgetfulness, leave out, oblivion, reverie). (various references)

Pig Latin

overlookay.(various references)

Portuguese

omitir (default, dele, elide, expurgate, forget, leave out, omit, overjump, overleap, pretermit). (various references)

Romanian

omite (balk, baulk, forget, jump, leave, neglect, omit, pretermit, retrench), vedea de sus, trece cu vederea peste, supraveghea (chaperon, direct, keep under, keep watch, look after, manage, observe, oversee, see, superintend, supervise, watch), se ridica deasupra, privi de sus (look down), nu vedea, nu rãsplãti, examina (canvass, comb, consider, contemplate, debate, examine, explore, go over, inspect, investigate, look at, look over, observe, overhaul, peer, pry into, quiz, review, scout, scrutinize, search, study, talk over, verify, view, visit, weigh), domina (command, dominate, get the upper hand, govern, have the upper hand, hold dominion over, rule, sway), cerceta (analyse, analyze, anatomize, ask, canvass, case, consider, consult, cross-question, delve, dip into, examine, excogiate, explore, inspect, introspect, investigate, look at, look into, look over, look through, peer, pursue, question, reconnoitre, research, screen, scrutinize, search, search into, seek, sift, sound, study, survey, test, try, visit), avea grijã de (administer to, care, care for, carry, keep, look after, look towards, mind, nurse, see, see after, take care of), a-i scãpa (escape notice), ţine:. (various references)

Russian 

смотреть сверху вниз (look down), следить (follow up, keep track, keep track of, look after, trace, track, watch), выходить окнами (front), возвышаться (dominate, spring, tower), обозревать (review, survey), недосмотреть, недоглядеть (fail to observe), не заметить (look over), надзирать (oversee, supervise), просмотреть, прощать (absolve, condone, excuse, forgave, forgive, forgiven, release, remit), пропустить (give the right of way, leave out, miss out), игнорировать;недооценивать (overlooked). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevideti (fail to observe, lose sight of), preći preko (climb over), ne obazirati se (disregard). (various references)

Spanish

vigilar (follow, guard, keep, keep an eye on, look, look after, mind, patrol, police, trace, trail, watch, watch over), pasar por alto (disregard, gloss over, ignore, jump, pass by, pass over), examinar (consider, examine, explore, go into, go over, go through, inquire, inquire into, inspect, look at, look into, look over, look through, observe, ponder, probe, quiz, rake, review, search, study, talk out, tempt, test, vet, view), dominar (control, dominate, get over, govern, henpeck, keep down, Lord, master, overlord, overpower, overrule, possess, put down, subdue, subject, take over), dar (accord, be in, bear, begin, cause, deal, feed on, gift, give, give off, go for, grow, hand, lecture, lend, matter, perform, play, present, produce, prolong, put on, say, shine, show, start, surrender, take, take to, teach, to give, turn on, yield). (various references)

Swedish

förbise (Miss), överse med (condone). (various references)

Turkish

yüksekten bakmak, saymamak (bar, count out, disallow, disregard, disrespect, leave out of account, not to count, not to take into account, take no account of), nazar değdirmek, nazır olmak (dominate), hoşgörmek (connive, excuse, indulge, look with favour on, permit of, tolerate), gözden kaçırmak, göz yummak (blink, blink at, condone, connive, excuse, face up to, have, leave unnoticed, let smth. pass unchallenged, pass by, permit of, suffer, tolerate, wink, wink at), görmemezlikten gelmek (blink, blink at, close one's eyes to, connive, cut, cut smb. dead, dissemble, give smb. the go-by, look through, overpass, pass off, pretend not to see, turn a blind eye, wink at), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch). (various references)

Ukrainian

не надавати значення, дивитися крізь пальці, доглядати (attend, care, see after, tend), панувати над містом, пропуск (chasm, hiatus, non-sequence, omission, out, skip, vacancy), пропускати (balk, drop out, leave out, let by, let through, miss out, omit, outlet, overjump, overleap, pass over, pass through, skip, waste), прощати (absolve, amnesty, excuse, pardon, remit), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, neglect, override, scorn, scout, spit, violate), наврочити (bedevil, witch), дивитися згори на щось, не звертати уваги (brush aside, let things slide, neglect), стежити за чимсь, недооцінювати (disparage, lessen, misjudge, misprise, misprize, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), недогляд (default, dereliction, erratum, inadvertence, inadvertency, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight), огляд (checkup, conspectus, examination, exploring, inspection, notice, recension, review, revue, survey, visit), огляд околиць з висоти, оглядати (case, notice, see, survey, view), виходити на (front, open), височіти над містом, ігнорувати (balk, brush aside, defy, disregard, dissemble, eliminate, ignore, neglect, overjump, overleap), не помічати (neglect). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự quan sát từ trên cao. (various references)

coierit, coierunt, coniventes, despecta, despecto, ignoro, praetermittas, praetermitteret. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "overlook": overlooked, overlooking, overlooks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Overlook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: everlook, oerlikon, overfloor, overlock, Overloon. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: looker, relook.

-3 letters: lover, ovolo.

-4 letters: koel, kolo, kore, levo, look, lore, love, oleo, orle, over, role, rook, rove, vole.

-5 letters: elk, kor, lek, lev, loo, oke, ole, ore, rev, roe, voe.

+1 letter: overlooks.

+2 letters: overlooked.

+3 letters: overlooking.