Outlook
['aʊtlʊk]
Definition
(v. t.) To face down; to outstare.
(v. t.) To inspect throughly; to select.
(n.) The act of looking out; watch.
(n.) One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower.
(n.) The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Watch.[2]. Prospect, view, sight.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prospect, view, eight,[See PROSPECT]
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Definition
n. vigilant watch: view obtained by looking out: prospect or (fig.) one's prospects: a watch-tower.—v.t. to face courageously.
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Examples
- Under the old regime all workers in a craft were approximately equals in their knowledge and outlook. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How shall we secure breadth of outlook without sacrificing efficiency of execution? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For they certainly do believe it, and generally the more parochial their outlook, the more cosmic their pretensions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They were limited in knowledge and outlook; they were limited by the limitations of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here was an economic tendency of revolutionary significance--the organization of business in a way that was bound to change the outlook of a whole nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A truly general aim broadens the outlook; it stimulates one to take more consequences (connections) into account. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hence a further need for a critical outlook and survey. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is no before or after to such experience; no retrospect nor outlook, and consequently no meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This direct and intimate connection of philosophy with an outlook upon life obviously differentiates philosophy from science. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Deuced cheerful outlook, Alice, said Clayton. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was the railway that altered the Canadian outlook. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For that the revolution had to go on: the industrial life of the nation had to change its character, social customs had to be replaced, the whole outlook of men had to be transformed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This reversal is pregnant with a new outlook for statecraft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Culture, under such circumstances, inevitably represented the intellectual and moral outlook of the class which was in direct social control. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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