looking at

1. 1.

   the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually

   “he went out to have a look”

   “his look was fixed on her eyes”

   “he gave it a good looking at”

   “his camera does his looking for him”

   Synonymslooklooking

   Broadersensing

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Questions about looking at

What does looking at mean?

looking at means "the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually".

What is another word for looking at?

Close synonyms include look, looking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is looking at a common word?

looking at is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.