looking
noun
- act of intentionally focusing visual perception on someone or something
adjective
- seeming, appear/seem
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈlʊkɪŋ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English lokynge, lokinge, from Old English lōcung (attested in Old English þurhlōcung), equivalent to look + -ing.
- The act of one who looks; a glance.
“A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of look
- as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
“dorky-looking”
“By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.”