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look on

look on verb: to watch; to observe without participating.

Verb

look on (third-person singular simple present looks on, present participle looking on, simple past and past participle looked on)

  1. (idiomatic) To watch; to observe without participating.
    • My performance seems somehow always to get worse when there are other people looking on.
  2. (idiomatic) To think of something in a particular way.
    • I look on him not as a boss, but as a friend.
    • We don't look kindly on people like you.

look on meaning in Malayalam and Sanskrit

look on in Malayalam

consider, regard, think of
നോക്കുക, കാണുക, ബഹുമാനിക്കുക, പരിഗണിക്കുക, വിലമതിക്കുക, ഗൗനിക്കുക

look on in Sanskrit

to look on
जागृ jāgṛ

Forms of look on

third-person singular presentlooks on
present participlelooking on
past participlelooked on
pastlooked on

Questions about look on

What does look on mean?
Look on means to watch; to observe without participating.
What is look on in Malayalam?
Look on in Malayalam is നോക്കുക, കാണുക, ബഹുമാനിക്കുക. See Look on meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is look on?
Look on is a verb.
What is the past tense of look on?
The past tense of look on is looked on.

Words near look on in the dictionary

  1. look like who did it and ran
  2. look like who did it and ran away
  3. look lively
  4. look Ma, no hands
  5. look off
  6. look on
  7. look on as
  8. look on the black side
  9. look on the bright side
  10. look on the bright side of it
  11. look on the dark side

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: look on (page history and authors); look on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); जागृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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