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looking past

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

Meaning of look past

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To see potential beyond obvious flaws; to consider something more than something else.
    • They were willing to look past their differences and began to work together.
    Synonyms:
    look beyond

Questions about looking past

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

Words near looking past in the dictionary

  1. looking out
  2. looking out for number one
  3. looking out for someone
  4. looking over
  5. looking over one's shoulder
  6. looking past
  7. looking right through
  8. looking round
  9. looking shy
  10. looking snappy
  11. looking the other way

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