Definition of Look for

1. Verb. Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of. "They look for the water "; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"


2. Verb. Be excited or anxious about.
Exact synonyms: Anticipate, Look To
Generic synonyms: Await, Expect, Look, Wait
Specialized synonyms: Apprehend, Quail At
Derivative terms: Anticipative

Definition of Look for

1. Verb. To search; to seek. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Look For

look after
look ahead
look alike
look and feel
look around
look at
look away
look back
look backward
look before you leap
look book
look daggers
look down on
look down one's nose
look down upon
look for
look forward
look forward to
look here
look into
look like
look off
look on
look out
look out for number one
look out on
look out over
look over
look round
look sharp

Literary usage of Look for

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... while part of us went to look for a guide that might put us in the right way. ... that we were loft,fent one of their company to look for us, ..."

2. The Lancet (1842)
"And Ireland, and probably other countries, would yield confirmatory evidence if it was important for me to look for it at present. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He began to look for external work in the immediate present and, for the future, he dreamed dreams. He collected money and built a church in the county town ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"When I first met with this solution, it appeared to me so obvious and satisfactory, that I at once adopted it, and have long ceased to look for any other. ..."

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