Antonyms for look back
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : loo k |
| Phonetic Transcription : lÊŠk |
Definition of look 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 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
- You began to look back to the old stories about the Lannings—a wild crew of men.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- At thirty a man should look back with tenderness, forward with hope.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- When I look back on it all, seems to me as if we was out o' our heads most o' the time.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- At times it almost makes me mad to look back—and yet you do not trust me.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- He did not look back, but he was sure that they stared at him as long as he was in sight.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- Instinctively she put her head out of the window to look back at them.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- But at the door she paused to look back dubiously, over her shoulder.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- As I look back upon them, I wonder that we got any sleep at all after some of her recitals.
- Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
- I look back now with emotion on that astonishing experiment.
- Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- When I look back I ask myself—was I not as blind as she, in truth?
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
Synonyms for look back
- apologize
- arouse
- awaken
- be disturbed
- be sorry for
- bear in mind
- bemoan
- bethink
- bewail
- bring to mind
- brood over
- call to mind
- call up
- cite
- come to one
- commemorate
- conjure up
- cry over
- cry over spilled milk
- deplore
- deprecate
- dig into the past
- disapprove
- dwell upon
- educe
- elicit
- enshrine
- evoke
- extract
- feel remorse
- feel sorry
- feel uneasy
- fix in the mind
- flash
- flash on
- get
- go back
- grieve
- hark back
- have compunctions
- have memories
- have qualms
- hold dear
- keep forever
- kick oneself
- know by heart
- lament
- learn
- live in the past
- look back
- memorialize
- memorize
- mind
- miss
- moan
- mourn
- muse over
- nail down
- nail it down
- recall
- recognize
- recollect
- reestablish
- refresh memory
- reinstate
- reintroduce
- relive
- remember
- remind
- reminisce
- renew
- repent
- repine
- retain
- retrospect
- review
- revive
- revoke
- ring a bell
- rouse
- rue
- stir
- strike a note
- summon
- summon up
- think back
- think of
- to remember
- treasure
- waken
- weep
- weep over
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