Word.ws English Dictionary

stargazed

stargazed is the simple past and past participle of stargaze.

Meaning of stargaze

Verb

stargaze (third-person singular simple present stargazes, present participle stargazing, simple past and past participle stargazed)

  1. To look at the stars at night.
    • It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.
  2. (figuratively) To gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively.
    • Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming. When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation.1912, Mary Antin, The Promised Land

Questions about stargazed

What is stargazed the simple past and past participle of?
Stargazed is the simple past and past participle of stargaze.

Words near stargazed in the dictionary

  1. Stargardt disease
  2. stargate
  3. stargates
  4. Stargateverse
  5. stargaze
  6. stargazed
  7. stargazer
  8. stargazers
  9. stargazes
  10. stargazey pie
  11. stargazey pies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stargazed (page history and authors); stargaze (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stargazed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stargazed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.