Dictionary Definition
outlook
Noun
1 a habitual or characteristic mental attitude
that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
[syn: mentality,
mindset, mind-set]
2 belief about (or mental picture of) the future
[syn: expectation,
prospect]
3 the act of looking out [syn: lookout]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A place from which something can be viewed.
- Perched on the edge of the cliff was a hidden outlook.
- The view from such a place.
- An attitude or
point
of view.
- He has a positive outlook on life.
- Expectation for
the future.
- The outlook for temperature rises is worrying.
Synonyms
- (place from which something can be viewed):
- (view from such a place):
- (attitude, point of view): attitude, opinion, point of view, viewpoint
- (expectation for the future): expectation, prognosis
Translations
place from which something can be viewed
- German Aussichtspunkt
- Italian: punto di vista
view from such a place
attitude, point of view
- Finnish: näkemys
- French: point de vue
- German: Einstellung, Ansichten (only plural)
- Italian: punto di vista
expectation for the future
- Finnish: tulevaisuudenkuva, tulevaisuudennäkymät p, näkymät p
- French: perspective (?)
- German: Aussicht
- Italian: prospettiva
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
Outlook or The Outlook may refer to:
In computing
- Microsoft Outlook, an e-mail and personal information management software product from Microsoft
- Outlook Express, an e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows
In printed media
- The Outlook (Rathfriland), a newspaper published in Rathfriland, Northern Ireland
- The Outlook (Saskatchewan), a newspaper published in Outlook, Saskatchewan.
- The Outlook (Alexander), a newspaper published in Alexander City, Alabama
- The Outlook (London), a popular weekly magazine published in London, 1898-1928
- The Outlook (New York), a popular monthly magazine published in New York, 1870-1935. The title varies considerably
- Outlook (magazine), a weekly English language newsmagazine published in India
- Outlook (Jewish magazine), a left-leaning Canadian Jewish magazine founded in 1962
- Outlooks, a monthly gay magazine published in Canada
- The Peninsula Outlook, a student-run newspaper located in Gig Harbor, Washington
Other
- Saturn Outlook, a "crossover" utility vehicle (CUV) made and marketed by General Motors Corporation
- Outlook Training Organisation, a registered charity in the United Kingdom
- Outlook, Montana, a town in Montana, United States
- Outlook, Saskatchewan, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Outlook Peak, a mountain on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada
outlook in Spanish: Outlook
outlook in French: Outlook
outlook in Korean: 아웃룩
outlook in Polish: Outlook
outlook in Chinese: Outlook
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anschauung, Texas tower,
aftertime, afteryears, airscape, angle, angle of vision, aptitude, attitude, basis, beacon, belvedere, bleachers, brazen out,
bridge, by-and-by,
chance, cityscape, cloudscape, coign of vantage,
command, conning tower,
course ahead, crystal ball, determinism, direction, distant future,
domination, eventuality, expectation, expectations, eye, eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, face down, face out,
fair expectation, favorable prospect, field of view, field of
vision, footing,
forecast, foresight, forward look, frame
of reference, framework, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, gallery, gazebo, good chance, grandstand, hereafter, hopes, horizon, immediate future,
immediate prospect, imminence, ken, landscape, liability, light, lighthouse, likelihood, likeliness, limit of vision,
line of sight, lookout,
loophole, mental
outlook, naked eye, near future, observation post, observatory, odds, offing, opinion, outbrave, outbrazen, outdare, outface, outlook over, outstare, overlook, panorama, peanut gallery,
peephole, perspective, pharos, place, point of view, position, posteriority, prediction, presumption, presumptive
evidence, probabilism, probability, project, prophecy, prospect, prospects, range, reasonable ground,
reasonable hope, reference system, regard, respect, ringside, ringside seat,
riverscape, scan, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, scope, scope of vision, seascape, side, sight, sighthole, sightliness, situation, skyscape, slant, stand, standpoint, stare down,
survey, sweep, system, tendency, the future, the
morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to
come, tomorrow, top
gallery, tower, townscape, universe, vantage, vantage point, verisimilitude, view, viewpoint, vista, watchtower, waterscape, well-grounded
hope