Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: outlook
IPA transcription: ['aʊtl,ʊk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mentality, outlook, mindset, mind-set
    Meaning: a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
  • Synonyms: expectation, outlook, prospect
    Meaning: belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Usage examples
  • "The outlook is bad, Walter," Sir John Powis said.
  • Then home again to the narrower outlook, the restricted life."
  • And now, at this moment, what was his outlook into life generally?
  • If this can be done, the economic outlook is for a great development of wealth and popular welfare.
  • The environment was circumscribed, but there were outlook, sunshine, ventilation--three good things.
  • There is no before or after to such experience; no retrospect nor outlook, and consequently no meaning.
  • "Well, then," said I, "you will have to find some secret spring of inspiration, some point of vantage from which you can get your outlook and your insight."
  • "But suppose there is no war," she demanded, "suppose you go on living at barracks here and there, and with no broader outlook than such a life entails, will you be satisfied?
  • The western window through which he had stared so intently has, I noticed, one peculiarity above all other windows in the house--it commands the nearest outlook on to the moor.
  • Was it possible he would ever come to think Cambridge narrow? In his short life Rickie had known two sudden deaths, and that is enough to disarrange any placid outlook on the world.