OVERLOOKING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Overlooking

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˈoʊvərlˌʊkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Overlook v. t. (past & past part. overlooked; pres. part. overlooking)

1.

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to be situated above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill; a hotel room that overlooks the marketplace. "The pile o'erlooked the town." "(Titan) with burning eye did hotly overlook them."

2.

Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.

3.

To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly. "Overlook this pedigree." "The time and care that are required To overlook and file and polish well."

4.

To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "If you trouble me I will overlook you, and then your pigs will die."

5.

To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; to fail to notice; to fail to observe; as, to overlook a mistake in addition; to overlook a missing bolt.

6.

Hence: To refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to disregard or deliberately ignore; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse or pardon (a fault, error, or misdeed). "The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked." "They overlook truth in the judgments they pass." "The pardoning and overlooking of faults."

See images of 'Overlooking'

Etymology of 'Overlooking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Overlooking" Quotes from Famous Books

... moment of the hours which I spent in my study. There was so little for her to do! She kept her chair during her waking hours either on the porch overlooking the garden or in the kitchen supervising the women at their work. Every slightest event was pitifully important in her life. The passing of the railway trains, the milking of the cow, the watering of the horses, the gathering of the eggs—these were important events in her diary. My incessant ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... far from light. Not only was he expected to supervise the clerks' accounts and to treat with the wholesale dealers, but he was also supposed to spend a great part of his time in the docks, overlooking the loading of the outgoing ships and checking the cargo of the incoming ones. This latter portion of his work was welcome as taking him some hours a day from the close counting-house, and allowing him to get a sniff of the sea air—if, indeed, a sniff is to be had on ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Sunday in the country was a very pleasant one to the sisters, Clare went off for a long walk with Hugh in the afternoon; Agatha settled herself in a wicker chair with her books in the sunny verandah overlooking the meadows and distant pine woods; and Gwen and Elfie wandered off across the fields, enjoying the sweet spring air, and noting all the spring flowers peeping ...

— The Carved Cupboard • Amy Le Feuvre

... overt notice of the king's words, however, but proceeded to give me my directions. 'Chize, which you know by name,' he said, 'is six leagues from here. Mademoiselle de la Vire is confined in the north-west room, on the first-floor, overlooking the park. More I cannot tell you, except that her woman's name is Fanchette, and that she is to be trusted. The house is well guarded, and you will need four or five men, There are plenty of cut-throats to be hired, only see, M. de ...

— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman

... many-windowed room, sat up almost gasping. She wondered what the heat must be like in those tenement rooms without any windows, with half a dozen or more people crowded into each one. Slipping out of bed she drew a low rocker to the window overlooking the river, and with her arms crossed on the sill, looked out into the darkness. There was only the starlight to-night, and the colored lights of the wharf boats along the bank. She could not see the dim outline ...

— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org