look on

verb

1. adverb to be a spectator at an event or incident
2. Alsolook upon preposition to consider or regard

   he looks on his mother-in-law with disapproval

   she looked on the whole affair as a joke

Derived Forms

• ˌlooker-ˈon, noun

Example Sentences

Like the spellbinder, the oracle frequently builds on the look-on-this-picture-and-then-on-that plan.

From Project Gutenberg

After an hour had passed, Kisseck popped his head out of the hatchways, and cried, "Try the look-on."

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Hour after hour wore on, and not a fish came to the "look-on" net.

From Project Gutenberg

Then hour after hour wore on, and not a fish came to the look-on net.

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Related Words

• note
• notice
• observe
• respect
• see
• view
• watch
• witness