looking for

1. 1.

   the act of searching visually

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Questions about looking for

What does looking for mean?

looking for means "the act of searching visually".

What is another word for looking for?

Close synonyms include 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 for a common word?

looking for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.