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noun

Outlook n.

The act of looking out; watch.

One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower.

The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; sight; appearance. "Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms."

The likely outcome, such as is indicated by the present situation; prospects; prognosis; as, the outlook is grim.

The point of view or attitude of a person; as, one's outlook on life is affected by illness.

verb

Outlook v. t.

To face down; to outstare. "To outlook conquest, and to win renown."

To inspect throughly; to select. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Outlook'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outlook" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the hydrant. Now, as long as my body was able to put up with this sort of thing, and my time of life was such as made it proper for me to bear it, I could get along with them fairly well; but now that my hair is growing gray, and the only outlook I have is in the direction of old age, what on earth am I going to do? I shall really have to get a rope and hang myself unless my luck changes. However, even if fortune remains as it is, I shan't string myself up before I have at least one square meal; for before very long, the wedding ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner

... jumble after all. There was something to it. It straightened itself out until the funny little marks became significant. Each of them had a meaning and the same meaning under all conditions. Through them your whole outlook on life became deepened and broadened—all because you learned the meaning of twenty-six little ...

— How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types • Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict

... think, and more dramatic for Shakespeare to have left the hot-headed Percy as the older man who, in spite of years, is too impatient-quick to look before he leaps, while giving the youthful Prince the calm reflection and impersonal outlook which necessarily belong to a great winner of kingdoms. The dramatist could have further differentiated the rivals by making Percy greedy; he should not only have quarrelled with his associates over the division ...

— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... Last-Trick Todd, at his palatial home at Pilgrim's Pond, caused so many of our prominent debutantes to look even younger than their years. Equally elegant and more miscellaneous and large-hearted in social outlook was Last-Trick's show the year previous, the popular Cannibal Crush Lunch, at which the confections handed round were sarcastically moulded in the forms of human arms and legs, and during which more than one of our gayest mental gymnasts ...

— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

... way of accounting for his extraordinary silence, and therefore the farmer held to it that he had done the deed. He argued as modern men do who think the hero, the upsetter of ordinary calculations, is gone from us. So, after despatching a letter to a friend in town to be on the outlook for son Tom, he continued awhile to smoke his pipe, rather elated than not, and mused on the shrewd manner he should adopt ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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