Out-look Synonyms, Out-look Antonyms

Synonyms for out-look

noun countryside; picture of countryside

Word Origin & History

"mental view or survey," 1742, from out (adv.) + look (v.). The meaning "prospect for the future" is attested from 1851. Earliest sense was "a look-out" (1660s). The literal sense of "vigilant watch, act or practice of looking out" (1815) is rare; look-out being used instead for this.

Example Sentences for out-look

The fable of Death and the Wood-cutter is a fair symbol of humanity's out-look.

You can scarcely err in opening on any page in your out-look for it.

The out-look for clear skies on that occasion, the total eclipse nearest New York for more than a century, is not very promising.

Now the commander had an eye like a fish-hawk, and generally managed to sight a vessel before even the out-look.

Up to the breaking of the storm we boys had not troubled ourselves much about the out-look.

The man on the out-look sung out, 'Sandbreaks and breakers ahead!'

As it was—well, the unrelieved discomforts were beginning to warp her out-look on everything.