Antonyms for looking back

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : loo k

Phonetic Transcription : lʊk

Definition of looking back

Origin : Old English locian "use the eyes for seeing, gaze, look, behold, spy," from West Germanic *lokjan (cf. Old Saxon lokon "see, look, spy," Middle Dutch loeken "to look," Old High German luogen, German dialectal lugen "to look out"), of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Breton lagud "eye." In Old English, usually with on; the use of at began 14c. Meaning "seek, search out" is c.1300; meaning "to have a certain appearance" is from c.1400. Of objects, "to face in a certain direction," late 14c.
Look after "take care of" is from late 14c., earlier "to seek" (c.1300), "to look toward" (c.1200). Look into "investigate" is from 1580s; look up "research in books or papers" is from 1690s. To look down upon in the figurative sense is from 1711; to look down one's nose is from 1921. To look forward "anticipate" is c.1600; meaning "anticipate with pleasure" is mid-19c. To not look back "make no pauses" is colloquial, first attested 1893. In look sharp (1711) sharp originally was an adverb, "sharply."

As in remembering : noun recalling
As in hindsight : noun retrospect
As in recall : verb remember
As in regret : verb be upset about
As in remember : verb keep in mind; summon into mind
As in reminisce : verb go over in one's memory
As in call to mind : verb to recollect

Example sentences :

Looking back, Andy saw a rifle pitch to the shoulder of the deputy.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

And, looking back, he saw that Hal Dozier was not among the pursuers.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

On looking back for my men, I saw one beckoning me to return.
Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell

I've been looking back, wondering if I ever thought that about him.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

So brief a time did all this occupy that Maulo, looking back, saw them.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

Looking back upon his own poor story, she was its vanishing-point.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

So now you have set your hand to the plough, Joseph, there is no looking back.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

The waiter went up-stairs, looking back at Margaret as he went.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Madame de Melbain and her escort had paused and were looking back.
Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

I asked, still with anxiety, and looking back as we went toward the door.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

Synonyms for looking back

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