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looking on

looking on is the present participle and gerund of look on.

Meaning of look on

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.

Questions about looking on

What is looking on the present participle and gerund of?
Looking on is the present participle and gerund of look on.

Words near looking on in the dictionary

  1. looking like something the cat's dragged in
  2. looking like who did it and ran
  3. looking like who did it and ran away
  4. looking lively
  5. looking off
  6. looking on
  7. looking on as
  8. looking on the black side
  9. looking on the bright side
  10. looking on the bright side of it
  11. looking on the dark side

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looking on (page history and authors); look on (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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