looking
/ˈlʊkɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.57 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
Example Sentences
- "dorky-looking"
- "By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country."
- "Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic."
- "A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]"
Etymology
From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lokynge, lōciende, lōcian, lōcung