LOOK ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look on mean? 

• LOOK ON (verb)
  The verb LOOK ON has 2 senses:

1. observe with attention

2. look on as or consider

  Familiarity information: LOOK ON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Observe with attention

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

look on; watch

Context example:

They watched as the murderer was executed

"Look on" entails doing...:

see (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "look on"):

sit back; sit by (be inactive or indifferent while something is happening)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Context example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Hypernyms (to "look on" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

The old man placed himself near and wanted to look on, and his white beard hung down.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He would stand off at a little distance and look on, while stones, clubs, axes, and all sorts of weapons fell upon his fellows.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Round the house he hurried, led by a pungent smell of burned sugar, and Mr. Scott strolled after him, with a queer look on his face.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She just lay across the arm of the chair with that look on her face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must have fallen asleep, for I was awaked by Mina, who was sitting up in bed, with a startled look on her face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was pushed down, but he stopped every blow, and I liked the look on his face as he got up again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How could I look on without agony?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I dare not expect such success, yet I cannot bear to look on the reverse of the picture.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Do not give way to useless alarm, added he; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)