Word.ws English Dictionary

through the looking glass

through the looking glass is the alternative form of through the looking-glass.

Meaning of through the looking-glass

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Disconcertingly bizarre; surreal; weird; strange; topsy-turvy; beyond the reasonable limits of normality.

Questions about through the looking glass

What is through the looking glass the alternative form of?
Through the looking glass is the alternative form of through the looking-glass.

Words near through the looking glass in the dictionary

  1. through street
  2. through the ceiling
  3. through the floor
  4. through the gate
  5. through the hawsehole
  6. through the looking glass
  7. through the looking-glass
  8. through the mill
  9. through the roof
  10. through the sunroof
  11. through the wazoo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: through the looking glass (page history and authors); through the looking-glass (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: “through the looking glass.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/through_the_looking_glass. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.