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Definition of Overlooked
1. Adjective. Not taken into account. "His retirement was not allowed to go unmarked"
Definition of Overlooked
1. Adjective. Missed, unnoticed. ¹
2. Verb. (past of overlook) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overlooked
1. overlook [v] - See also: overlook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlooked
Literary usage of Overlooked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The fact that Pope "overlooked" the engagement was not enough to show that he
was not in such a condition mentally or physically that he could not have ..."
2. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"This account, often overlooked, was afterwards reprinted in Pinkerton's ' Voyages,'
vol. i. 1808, 4to. [See also Biog. Diet. SDUK, 1843, 8vo, ii. 222. ..."
3. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"that I should have overlooked it. As a corrector of Greek proofs (if in no other
way), I might surely have gained enough for my slender wants. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... festival may easily Lc supposed: but there is one circumstance of a more
singular and permanent nature, which ought not entirely to be overlooked. ..."
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