Meaning of OUTLOOK
| Pronunciation: | | 'awt`lûk
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- [n] the act of looking out
- [n] belief about (or mental picture of) the future
- [n] a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
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| | Synonyms: | | expectation, lookout, mentality, mindset, mind-set, prospect |
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| | See Also: | | anticipation, apprehension, attitude, belief, expectancy, foretaste, hope, look, looking, looking at, mental attitude, misgiving, possibility, promise | |
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| | Definition: | | Outlook
Provides a glossary of e-mail and Outlook terms for easy reference. Offers in-depth explanations of Outlook's functions such as managing contacts and e-mail, scheduling meetings and tasks, and integrating documents with Office 2000. Contains CD-ROM with TEST YOURSELF software for the MOUS exam and practice files that correspond to exercises in the book. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Out*look"\, v. t.
1. To face down; to outstare.
To outlook conquest, and to win renown. --Shak.
2. To inspect throughly; to select. [Obs.] --Cotton.
\Out"look`\, n.
1. The act of looking out; watch.
2. One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks
out; a watchower. --Lyon Playfair.
3. The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision;
prospect; sight; appearance.
Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its
charms. --Young.
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| | Related Terms: | | aftertime, afteryears, airscape, angle, angle of vision, Anschauung, aptitude, attitude, basis, beacon, belvedere, bleachers, brazen out, bridge, by-and-by, chance, cityscape, cloudscape, coign of vantage, command, conning tower, course ahead, crystal ball, determinism, direction, distant future, domination, eventuality, expectation, expectations, eye, eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, face down, face out, fair expectation, favorable prospect, field of view, field of vision, footing, forecast, foresight, forward look, frame of reference, framework, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, gallery, gazebo, good chance, grandstand, hereafter, hopes, horizon, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, ken, landscape, liability, light, lighthouse, likelihood, likeliness, limit of vision, line of sight, lookout, loophole, mental outlook, naked eye, near future, observation post, observatory, odds, offing, opinion, outbrave, outbrazen, outdare, outface, outlook over, outstare, overlook, panorama, peanut gallery, peephole, perspective, pharos, place, point of view, position, posteriority, prediction, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, project, prophecy, prospect, prospects, range, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, reference system, regard, respect, ringside, ringside seat, riverscape, scan, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, scope, scope of vision, seascape, side, sight, sighthole, sightliness, situation, skyscape, slant, stand, standpoint, stare down, survey, sweep, system, tendency, Texas tower, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, top gallery, tower, townscape, universe, vantage, vantage point, verisimilitude, view, viewpoint, vista, watchtower, waterscape, well-grounded hope |
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