perspective
/pɚˈspɛk.tɪv/
perspective noun: a view, vista or outlook.
Noun
perspective (countable and uncountable, plural perspectives)
- A view, vista or outlook.
- And according to Hughes, HM Treasury is still sceptical about rail electrification. "It's not because they don't see electrification as a good thing, but I think when you look at it from the UK-wide perspective, if you have £x billion to spend on decarbonisation, you don't necessarily start with...2025 February 5, Peter Plisner, “East West Rail: progress from west to east”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 30
- The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
- The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
- An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
- The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
- The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
- A perspective glass.
- […] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker
- A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
Adjective
perspective (not comparable)
perspective meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
perspective in Hindi
- view, vista or outlook
- दृष्टिकोण dŕṣṭikoṇ, परिप्रेक्ष्य pariprekṣya, नज़र nazar
- appearance of depth in objects
- परिप्रेक्ष्य pariprekṣya
- choice of a single point of view
- दृष्टिकोण dŕṣṭikoṇ, नज़र nazar
perspective in Tamil
- சரியான கண்ணோட்டம், தொலைநோக்கு, பார்வை, சார்காட்சி, நோக்குநிலை, இயலுறு தோற்றம்
perspective in Marathi
- perspective, point of view, approach
- दृष्टिकोण druṣṭikoṇ
perspective in Urdu
- perspective
- نظریہ nazariya
More languagesFewer languages
- perspective in Malayalam
- പരിപ്രേക്ഷ്യം, ദർശനകോണം, വീക്ഷണകോണം, കാഴ്ചപ്പാട്
- perspective in Kannada
- ಕಾಣ್ಬಟ್ಟೆ, ದೃಷ್ಟಿಕೋನ, ಯಥಾದೃಷ್ಟಿ, ದೃಶ್ಯ ಸಮೀಚೀನ ದೃಷ್ಟಿ
- perspective in Gujarati
- દૃષ્ટિ dŕṣṭi
- perspective in Nepali
- परिप्रेक्ष्य
- perspective in Tagalog
- sawang
- perspective in Arabic
- مَنْظُور manẓūr, نَظْرَة naẓra
- perspective in Indonesian
- perspektif
- perspective in Thai
- ทัศนมิติ, มุมมอง mum-mɔɔng
Examples of perspective in a sentence
- The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.
- All of the orthogonals in this painting display an understanding of linear perspective.
- I had to opine on the situation because I thought a different perspective was in order.
Forms of perspective
| plural | perspectives |
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Origin of perspective
From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).
Words formed from perspective
- aerial perspective
- atmospheric perspective
- bioperspective
- forced perspective
- in perspective
- isometric perspective
- macroperspective
- mixed perspective
- multiperspective
- perspectival
- perspectivation
- perspectiveless
- perspectively
- perspectivic
- perspectivism
- perspectivist
- perspectivistic
- perspectivity
- perspectivization
- point-projection perspective
- put something into perspective
- side-perspective
- twisted perspective
- two-point perspective
Phrases with perspective
Questions about perspective
- What does perspective mean?
- Perspective means a view, vista or outlook.
- What is perspective in Hindi?
- Perspective in Hindi is दृष्टिकोण (dŕṣṭikoṇ), परिप्रेक्ष्य (pariprekṣya), नज़र (nazar). See Perspective meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is perspective?
- Perspective can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce perspective?
- Perspective is pronounced /pɚˈspɛk.tɪv/ (US).
- What is the plural of perspective?
- The plural of perspective is perspectives.
Words near perspective in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: perspective (page history and authors); perspective (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दृष्टिकोण (Marathi) (page history and authors); نظریہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); perspective (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); perspective (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); દૃષ્ટિ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); perspective (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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