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Outlook   /ˈaʊtlˌʊk/   Listen
noun
Outlook  n.  
1.
The act of looking out; watch.
2.
One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower.
3.
The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; sight; appearance. "Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms."
4.
The likely outcome, such as is indicated by the present situation; prospects; prognosis; as, the outlook is grim.
5.
The point of view or attitude of a person; as, one's outlook on life is affected by illness.


verb
Outlook  v. t.  
1.
To face down; to outstare. "To outlook conquest, and to win renown."
2.
To inspect throughly; to select. (Obs.)





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"Outlook" Quotes from Famous Books



... unappreciated old men, living contentedly from hand to mouth, gayly propping each other up when one or the other weakened, had strangely affected him. If, as he reasoned, such battered hulks, stranded these many years on the dry sands of incompetency, with no outlook for themselves across the wide sea over which their contemporaries were scudding with all sails set before the wind of success—if these castaways, their past always with them and their hoped-for future forever out of their reach, could ...
— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith
... into his turmoil? You may go about any of the villages here, watch the daily doings of the inhabitants, and feel confident that, practically, there has been no substantial change since the Norman Conquest. The "feeling" of the scene is the same as it always was, the outlook of the people, their habit of mind, is the same. The one apparent difference is in religion, and that is not a difference of substance but of accident. We have forgotten the Madonna and the Saints, who were taken away from us by violence. We still go ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett
... they'll get the ball and push us right down the field with a lot of measly mass plays, and we won't be able to kick and we won't be able to go through their line. And it's dollars to doughnuts that we won't often get round their ends. It's a hard outlook! Of course, if I can pass—" But there Blair stopped and sighed dolefully. And Joel echoed ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... moved as an equal, notwithstanding the fact of his country training and prejudices, and it was through the man Morley that we got our first outlook upon the bleak world of Agnosticism, for during the summer a series of lectures by Robert Ingersoll was reported in one of the Chicago papers and the West rang ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... talked of many things. She had kept her freshness of soul and her ideals untarnished. In the peace of the old valley she had lived a life, narrow outwardly, wondrously deep and wide in thought and aspiration. Her native hills bounded the vision of her eyes, but the outlook of the soul was far and unhindered. In the quiet places and the green ways she had found what he had failed to find—the secret of happiness and content. He knew that if this woman had walked hand in hand with him through the years, life, even in the glare and tumult of that world beyond ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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