Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overlook
Participle: overlooked
Gerund: overlooking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overlook |
| you | overlook |
| he;she;it | overlooks |
| we | overlook |
| you | overlook |
| they | overlook |
Perfect
| I | have overlooked |
| you | have overlooked |
| he;she;it | has overlooked |
| we | have overlooked |
| you | have overlooked |
| they | have overlooked |
Past
| I | overlooked |
| you | overlooked |
| he;she;it | overlooked |
| we | overlooked |
| you | overlooked |
| they | overlooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had overlooked |
| you | had overlooked |
| he;she;it | had overlooked |
| we | had overlooked |
| you | had overlooked |
| they | had overlooked |
Future
| I | will overlook |
| you | will overlook |
| he;she;it | will overlook |
| we | will overlook |
| you | will overlook |
| they | will overlook |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overlooked |
| you | will have overlooked |
| he;she;it | will have overlooked |
| we | will have overlooked |
| you | will have overlooked |
| they | will have overlooked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overlook |
| you | overlook |
| he;she;it | overlook |
| we | overlook |
| you | overlook |
| they | overlook |
Perfect
| I | have overlooked |
| you | have overlooked |
| he;she;it | have overlooked |
| we | have overlooked |
| you | have overlooked |
| they | have overlooked |
Imperfect
| I | overlooked |
| you | overlooked |
| he;she;it | overlooked |
| we | overlooked |
| you | overlooked |
| they | overlooked |
Pluperfect
| I | had overlooked |
| you | had overlooked |
| he;she;it | had overlooked |
| we | had overlooked |
| you | had overlooked |
| they | had overlooked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overlook |
| you | would overlook |
| he;she;it | would overlook |
| we | would overlook |
| you | would overlook |
| they | would overlook |
Perfect
| I | would have overlooked |
| you | would have overlooked |
| he;she;it | would have overlooked |
| we | would have overlooked |
| you | would have overlooked |
| they | would have overlooked |
Imperative
| you | overlook |
| we | Let's overlook |
| you | overlook |
Verbs conjugated like 'overlook'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overlook'
overbook,
overcook,
overlock,
overclock,
overcool,
overflood,
overgloom,
overleak,
overlick,
overlink,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To observe or inspect carefully
- analyze, examine, inspect, look over, probe, scrutinize, study
- ignore
- disregard, omit, miss, disdain, neglect, slight
- forgive
- condone, pardon
- supervise
- scan, oversee, survey, scrutinize, superintend, inspect, examine
- surmount
- overtop
Antonyms
- ignore
- notice, recognize, regard, heed
- forgive
- punish, blame, retaliate, condemn
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1369, "to examine, scrutinize, inspect," from over + look (q.v.). Another M.E. sense was "to peer over the top of." These two literal senses have given rise to the two main modern meanings. Meaning "to look over or beyond and thus not see, to choose to not notice" is first recorded 1524. Seemingly contradictory sense of "to watch over officially, keep an eye on, superintend" is from 1532. Overlooking also was the common term for "inflicting the evil eye on" (someone or something).
2. From Middle English overloken; equivalent to over- + look.
Sample Sentences
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He was very busily intent at this moment on a slate lying before him, on which he was carefully and slowly endeavoring to accomplish a copy of some letters, in which operation he was overlooked by young Mas’r George, a smart, bright boy of thirteen, who appeared fully to realize the dignity of his position as instructor.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Andy, ” said Sam, “ you's a promisin ’ child, der an't no manner o ’ doubt. I thinks lots of yer, Andy; and I don't feel no ways ashamed to take idees from you. We oughtenter overlook nobody, Andy, cause the smartest on us gets tripped up sometimes. And so, Andy, let's go up to the house now. I'll be boun ’ Missis'll give us an uncommon good bite, dis yer time. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] is higher than the surrounding country, and rolls its tremendous volume between massive levees twenty feet in height. The traveller from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. Tom, therefore, had spread out full before him, in plantation after plantation, a map of the life to which he was approaching.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)