overlook

Plural: overlooks

Noun

• a high place affording a good view
• A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.

Verb

Verb Forms: overlooked, overlooking, overlooks

• To fail to notice or consider.
• look past, fail to notice
• be oriented in a certain direction
  • "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"
• leave undone or leave out
• look down on
• watch over
  • "I am overlooking her work"
• To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.
• To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.
• To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.
• To look down upon from above or from a higher location.
• To supervise, oversee; to watch over.
• To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.
• To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
• To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

Examples

• It’s easy to overlook a crucial double letter score when focused only on making a bingo.
• I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.
• Our hotel room overlooks the lake.
• The hill overlooks the valley.
• These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.
• to overlook a gang of laborers
• to overlook one who is writing a letter

Synonyms

command, dominate, drop, leave out, look across, look out on, look out over, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overtop, pretermit, analyze, brush off, check, disregard, dissemble, examine, ignore, inspect, look over, luster, lustrate, misheed, misregard, overlook, overpass, oversee, pass, pass by, pay no heed, probe, put aside, scrutinate, scrutinize, shrug off, slough, study, survey, take no notice of, tune out, unheed, unmind

Antonyms

attend to

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