look around

Verb

Meaning

look about oneself

Source: WordNet

Antonyms

shun avoid neglect evade omit disregard

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Hypernyms

look

Examples

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. John Dryden

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind. Albert Einstein

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times. Chinese Proverb

Before you plan to improve the world, look around your own house three times. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

look and feel look angrily at look angry look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence