lookout, outlook
(noun) the act of looking out
expectation, outlook, prospect
(noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future
mentality, outlook, mindset, mind-set
(noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
outlook (plural outlooks)
A place from which something can be viewed.
Synonyms: vantage point, overlook
The view from such a place.
An attitude or point of view.
Synonyms: attitude, opinion, perspective, point of view, vantage point, viewpoint
Expectation for the future.
Synonyms: expectation, prognosis, prospect
outlook (third-person singular simple present outlooks, present participle outlooking, simple past and past participle outlooked)
(intransitive, archaic, literary) To face or look in an outward direction.
Synonym: look out
(transitive, archaic) To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).
Synonyms: outstare, face down, browbeat, overcome
(transitive, obsolete) To be more attractive than (someone or something).
(transitive, obsolete) To inspect throughly; to select.
(transitive, obsolete) To look beyond (something).
• Lookout, look out, look-out, lookout
Source: Wiktionary
Out*look", v. t.
1. To face down; to outstare. To outlook conquest, and to win renown. Shak.
2. To inspect throughly; to select. [Obs.] Cotton.
Out"look`, n.
1. The act of looking out; watch.
2. One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower. Lyon Playfair.
3. The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance. Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms. Young.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 April 2025
(adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed; “an extinguishable fire”; “hope too is extinguishable”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
