onlooker

Noun

Meaning

someone who looks on

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bystander looker-on clapper spectator chaser looker seer wallflower audience observer witness peer listener eyewitness signer
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Antonyms

prater party player actress athlete aspirant
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Hypernyms

spectator looker witness watcher viewer

Phrases with the word

average onlooker curious onlooker apathetic onlooker rude onlooker interested onlooker idle onlooker

Examples

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise. Georges Braque

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art. Arnold Schoenberg

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker. Bill Hybels

The role of art is to give food for thought, to act as a stimulant, to entice the onlooker to inspect things, people, emotions, from a new point of view. Jim Ede

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished. Robert Frank

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious. Steven Moffat

Close letter words and terms

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