LOOK OUT (FOR) Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of look out (for)

as in to watch out (for)

to be cautious of or on guard against if you go in those woods, look out for snakes!

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as in to care

to have an interest or concern for as a fiduciary, she has an obligation to look out for our interests

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look out for

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phrase

as in nurse

to attend to the needs and comforts of He always looks out for his grandkids.

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Researchers identified the activity in May after noticing unusual edits and messages appearing across the site.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
The Impending Cost to Google Google's current bet is that the average person won't notice the corner-cutting.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of notice

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An autonomous attacker does not care what an organization's SPRS score says, whether its dashboard is green or whether an assessment concluded that a control was implemented.

— Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The remaining Eagles stopped caring about the tug-of-war between art and commerce; for the next five decades, money ruled.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of care

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Michigan fans looked dumbfounded and despondent at the Big House, watching what looked like the program’s first loss to a MAC team since 2008.

— Austin Meek, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The pallid grayness of Mike Eley’s cinematography is probably supposed to mimic the finality of HIV/AIDS taking hold, but there’s no passion aesthetically to counterbalance what becomes absolute misery onscreen to watch.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of watch

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So Urbani’s job was to procure those from a hatchery or catch them and then take care of them so they could be released.

— Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023
Once that’s done, KFON’s business support centre will contact and take care of the next course of action.

— Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 6 June 2023

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