Word Meanings - LOOKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.

Related words: (words related to LOOKER)

• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• AFFRONTEDLY
  Shamelessly. Bacon.
• AFFRONT
  affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See 1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.
• COASTING
  Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• AFFRONTER
  One who affronts, or insults to the face.
• AFFRONTINGLY
  In an affronting manner.
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• SPECTATOR
  One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
• FATALISM
  The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
• AFFRONTE
  Face to face, or front to front; facing.
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• AFFRONTIVE
  Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.
• AGENCY
  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
• COASTER
  1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
• COASTAL
  Of or pertaining to a cast.
• AFFRONTIVENESS
  The quality that gives an affront or offense. Bailey.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.
• DISCOAST
  To depart; to quit the coast of anything; to be separated. As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.
• SUBAGENCY
  A subordinate agency.
• ACCOAST
  To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.
• SELF-AFFAIRS
  One's own affairs; one's private business. Shak.