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say it: LUUK-ing
looking is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of searching visually
appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
“left their clothes dirty looking”
“a most disagreeable looking character”
“angry-looking”
“liquid-looking”
“severe-looking policemen on noble horses”
“fine-sounding phrases”
“taken in by high-sounding talk”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for looking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.