underlook
verbUS /ʌndɚˈlʊk/ · UK /ʌndəˈlʊk/
Etymology From Middle English underloken (“look up at? be suspicious of?”), equivalent to under- + look.
1
Rare To look up at from below; to inspect from underneath.
- They would be Shepherds and feed his Sheep, and anoint them for the Scab, and underlook them.1682, Edmund Hickeringill, The black Non-Conformist, discover'd, iii, 14:
- Upon a rough table-ledge, they came to it at last; the place where they could lean in between the trees, and overlook and underlook the shining tumult [of the waterfall].1873, A.D.T. Whitney, The Other Girls, page 242:
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- […]they would be Shepherds and feed his Sheep, and anoint them for the Scab, and underlook them, but not worry them, nor destroy them[…]1709, Edmund Hickeringill, “The Black Nonconformist”, in The Works of the Reverend Mr Edm. Hickeringill, page 36:
- On this occasion at the Mamounia in Marrakesh, we occupied a room underlooking the garden — yes, 'underlooking', for we were just below ground level in a room with a wall that sloped outwards and up to a reinforced glass ceiling.2016, John Carter, Gullible's Travels: Tales by an International Towel Thief, pages 194-195:
2
Rare To fail to notice or give due importance to, especially because one is notionally looking too low (found in complement with overlook, as if it meant "to fail to notice because one is looking too high").
- Existing review research has focused on specific terms, underlooking important developments in the area.2020, Vera Ferreira et al., “Stakeholders' Engagement on Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review”, in Sustainability, volume 12, number 620, page 19:
- The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking anything. I am just making inquiry of you for information. Mr. THOMSON. I know you do not overlook anything. The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking or underlooking, but just listening to you and trying to get your viewpoint.1950, Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session, volume 2, page 2656:
1 more example
- "Do you remember Calkin's story about the quarrel he overheard—and underlooked?"2016, H. F. Heard, The Great Fog: And Other Weird Tales:
- Antonyms
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