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looks on

looks on is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 looks on

What is looks on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Looks on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look on.

Words near looks on in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looks 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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