Outlook

[out·look]

The word outlook describes a belief about the future. Your outlook on the awful present situation might make your outlook for the future turn grim.

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To face down; to outstare.

Noun
the act of looking out

Noun
belief about (or mental picture of) the future

Noun
a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations


v. t.
To face down; to outstare.

v. t.
To inspect throughly; to select.

n.
The act of looking out; watch.

n.
One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower.

n.
The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance.


Outlook

Out*look" , v. t. 1. To face down; to outstare.
To outlook conquest, and to win renown.
2. To inspect throughly; to select. [Obs.] Cotton.

Outlook

Out"look`, n. 1. The act of looking out; watch. 2. One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower. Lyon Playfair. 3. The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance.
Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms.

To face down; to outstare.

The act of looking out; watch.

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Usage Examples

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

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