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OUTLOOK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of looking out
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("outlook" is a kind of...):
look; looking; looking at (the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Synonyms:
expectation; outlook; prospect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("outlook" is a kind of...):
belief (any cognitive content held as true)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outlook"):
hope; promise (grounds for feeling hopeful about the future)
foretaste (an early limited awareness of something yet to occur)
possibility (a future prospect or potential)
anticipation; expectancy (something expected (as on the basis of a norm))
apprehension; misgiving (painful expectation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
Synonyms:
mentality; mind-set; mindset; outlook
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("outlook" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
Context examples:
It seemed to him, by the end of the week, that he had lived centuries, so far behind were the old life and outlook.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His outlook was bleak and materialistic.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
With the newcomers hopeless and forlorn, and the old team worn out by twenty-five hundred miles of continuous trail, the outlook was anything but bright.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Previous studies have suggested that patients with lower levels of anxiety or those with an optimistic outlook (and who are more likely to report better perceptions of care), are also likely to live for longer.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
So bare and cheerless was the outlook, and so few and poor the dwellings, that Sir Nigel began to have fears as to whether he might find food and quarters for his little troop.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the same time, Pluto will be too far away to cause any difficulties—this birthday year offers you a much better outlook.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The outlook was black indeed, and I went about my work with a heavy heart.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations; and she dreamed of helping him to see as she saw, of widening his horizon until it was identified with hers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Now let’s turn to your romantic outlook in January.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I have since determined that a part of it was due to the man’s personality, but that the greater part was due to his totally different outlook.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
