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outlook
/ˈaʊtˌlʊk/
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What does outlook mean?
noun
- A place from which something can be viewed.
- The view from such a place.
- An attitude or point of view.
More meanings (7)
noun
- Expectation for the future.
- look; appearance
verb
- (archaic, literary) To face or look in an outward direction.
- (archaic) To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).
- (obsolete) To be more attractive than (someone or something).
- (obsolete) To inspect throughly; to select.
- (obsolete) To look beyond (something).
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IPA pronunciation
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If you are in that dreadful New York, I wish I could send you some of this lovely, breezy, sunshiny outlook.
Open-mindedness, single-mindedness, sincerity, breadth of outlook, thoroughness, assumption of responsibility for developing the consequences of ideas which are accepted, are moral traits.
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Psychology and the outlook of modern life are stressing the growth of independent responsibility and discrimination as the true basis of ethics.
If the bleeding increases, the outlook becomes less favorable, and, as I have said, miscarriage is inevitable when it amounts to flooding.
This has to be borne in mind in connection with the present mental status of man, particularly in his outlook upon nature.