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forthlook

forthlook verb: to look forth; look out.

Verb

forthlook (third-person singular simple present forthlooks, present participle forthlooking, simple past and past participle forthlooked)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To look forth; look out.

Noun

forthlook (plural forthlooks)

  1. A looking forth, forward, or ahead; an outlook; prospect; projection.
    • This essay is a thoughtful forthlook to the time when, at the approaching disestablishment of the Episcopal Church in England, Congregationalism will be placed on a new footing — [...]1872, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, New Englander and Yale review

Forms of forthlook

Verb
third-person singular presentforthlooks
present participleforthlooking
past participleforthlooked
pastforthlooked
Noun
pluralforthlooks

Origin of forthlook

From Middle English forthloken, from Old English forþlōcian (“to look forth”), equivalent to forth- + look.

Questions about forthlook

What does forthlook mean?
Forthlook means to look forth; look out.
What part of speech is forthlook?
Forthlook can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of forthlook?
The past tense of forthlook is forthlooked.

Words near forthlook in the dictionary

  1. forthleap
  2. forthleaping
  3. forthleaps
  4. forthleapt
  5. forthled
  6. forthlook
  7. forthlooked
  8. forthlooking
  9. forthlooks
  10. forthought
  11. forthpass

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