Word Meanings - OVERLOOK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did

Additional info about word: OVERLOOK

1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak. 2. Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter. 3. To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly. "Overlook this pedigree." Shak. The time and care that are required To overlook and file and polish well. Roscommon. 4. To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate. Shak. If you trouble me I will overlook you, and then your pigs will die. C. Kingsley. 5. To look over and beyond without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. Acts xvii. 30 (Rev. Ver. ) They overlook truth in the judgments they pass. Atterbury. The pardoning and overlooking of faults. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERLOOK)

• Blink
• Wink
• ignore
• connive
• overlook
• Connive
• pretermit
• pass
• Excuse
• Exculpate
• absolve
• pardon
• forgive
• condone
• i emit
• indulge
• justify
• vindicate
• defend
• acquit
• mitigate
• extenuate
• release
• exempt
• exonerate
• Forget
• Lose
• learn
• obliviate
• Ignore
• Disown
• repudiate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OVERLOOK)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to OVERLOOK)

• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• EXCUSER
  1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
• EXTENUATE
  thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See 1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• EXEMPTIBLE
  That may be exempted.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• JUSTIFY
  To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts xiii. 39. 4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. Shak.
• INDULGENCE
  Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• SUNBLINK
  A glimpse or flash of the sun. Sir W. Scott.
• MOONBLINK
  A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.