Wink: to look at while blinking one eye to signal or tease another person Watch: to look carefully or in expectationģ5. Study: to look at attentively or with attention to detailģ4. Stare (down): to look at someone else to try to dominateģ3. Scan: to look at quickly, or to look through text or a set of images or objects to find a specific oneģ2. Regard: to look at attentively or to evaluateĢ9. Peruse: to look at cursorily, or to do so carefullyĢ7. Peer: to look at with curiosity or intensity, or to look at something difficult to seeĢ5. Peep: to look cautiously or secretively see also peek (also, slang for “see” or “watch”)Ģ4. Peek: to look briefly or furtively, or through a small or narrow openingĢ3. Outface: to look steadily at another to defy or dominate, or to do so figurativelyĢ2. Observe: to look carefully to obtain information or come to a conclusion, or to notice or to inspectġ9. Leer: to look furtively to one side, or to look at lecherously or maliciouslyġ8. Goggle: to look at with wide eyes, as if in surprise or wonderġ7. Glower: to look at with annoyance or angerġ6.
Gloat: to look at with triumphant and/or malicious satisfactionġ5. Gaze: to look steadily, as with admiration, eagerness, or wonderġ4. Gawp: see gape (generally limited to British English)ġ1.
Gape: to look at with surprise or wonder, or mindlessly, and with one’s mouth openġ0. Dip (into): to examine or read superficiallyĨ. Contemplate: to look at extensively and/or intenselyĥ. Consider: to look at reflectively or steadilyĤ. Blink: to look at with disbelief, dismay, or surprise or in a cursory mannerģ. Many of these substitutions come in especially handy when it comes to finding one word to take the place of look-plus-adverb or look-plus-adjective-and-noun, as the definitions demonstrate.ġ. Look, it’s perfectly acceptable to use the verb look, but don’t hesitate to replace this fairly ordinary-looking word with one of its many more photogenic synonyms.
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