Past tense of look
regular verb
The past tense of look is looked. The past participle is also looked.
Forms of look
| Base form (V1) | look /lʊk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | looked /lʊkt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | looked /lʊkt/ |
| Present participle | looking /ˈlʊkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | looks /lʊks/ |
Looked in a sentence
- He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New...
- She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.From the entry meat
- He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.From the entry work
- He jumped when he looked up to see a man standing before him.From the entry jump
Meaning of look
- verb As an intransitive verb, often with “at”.
- verb As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- verb To appear, to seem.
Questions about the past tense of look
- What is the past tense of look?
- The past tense of look is looked.
- What is the past participle of look?
- The past participle of look is looked.
- Is look a regular or irregular verb?
- Look is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: look (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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