Definition of overlook

noun (n)

• a high place affording a good view (noun.location)

  source: wordnet30

verb (v)

• look past, fail to notice (verb.perception)

  source: wordnet30
• be oriented in a certain direction (verb.stative)

  Synonym: look across, look out on, look out over
  

  Example:
  The apartment overlooks the Hudson.
  

  source: wordnet30
• leave undone or leave out (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit
  Antonym: attend to, take to heart
  

  source: wordnet30
• look down on (verb.stative)

  Synonym: command, dominate, overtop
  

  source: wordnet30
• watch over (verb.perception)

  Example:
  I am overlooking her work.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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