look
/lʊk/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.81 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To give an appearance of being.
verb
To expect or anticipate.
Example Sentences
- "They kept looking at me."
- "Don’t look in the closet."
- "Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.[…]She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid[…]Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor."
- "He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own."
- "Timothy Leary's dead. No, no no no, he's outside, looking in."
- "Look what you did to him!"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn Old English lōcian Middle English loken English look From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
looks (present, singular)
looking (participle, present)
looked (participle, past)
looked (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
looked (first person, past)
lookest (archaic, present)
looked (past, second person)
lookedst (archaic, past)
looketh (archaic, present)
looked (past, singular)