to look on
15
3.3
- phrasal verb
- /lʊk ɑn/
:
considerar
- It'll help if you also look on me as your friend, Dennis.
Didn't happen, but Trump managed to look on the murderous dictator's bright side.
- Didn't happen, but Trump managed to look on the murderous dictator's bright side.
- And you know, I, I look on these people as pathetic little boys in short trousers, little boys and girls in short trousers.
- Or I know you're dreading the holidays this year since you stopped talking to your mom, but look on the bright side, you don't need to deal with your family this year.
Examples
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I tried to look on the bright side after I hung up.
Fiction book (1998) -
My friends might look on you more kindly.
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But perhaps we ought to all look on the bright side.
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We all look on you as one of the family.
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Oh, I imagine it must be tough being wrong... but look on the bright side.
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I look on you as myself.
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As a doctor, a surgeon, I look on these things differently.
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Luzhin, you need to look on this as an opportunity.
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By now, I have come to look on the world as a spectacle and to laugh at it.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many students look on their teacher as a mentor who guides them through their studies.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Study something carefully to understand it or decide
834
1.0
See someone or something in a certain way
670
2.4
To look at someone or something carefully to understand it
276
3.1
To consider someone or something in a certain way
157
3.3
To think of someone or something as a certain thing
60
3.7
To think of someone or something in a certain way
20
3.9
Think someone or something is a certain thing
1
7.0
Thought by many people to have a certain quality or to have done something
Antonyms
How Favorable
21
6.7
∞
1.0
743
1.6
15
3.3
∞
3.1
332
3.0
119
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
look + on
The meaning 'to regard or consider' is partly inferable from 'look' (directing gaze or appearing) plus the prepositional/additional focus contributed by 'on'/'upon', so learners can often guess a sense of viewing or regarding. However, the evaluative sense 'consider as' is a slight metaphorical extension and not fully predictable from the literal parts, so a B1 learner might infer a general idea but miss the precise nuance without prior exposure.
Etymology
Look on can also come from the idea of looking at someone and putting a view 'on' them, as if you place a name or idea when you see them. That's why it means 'to regard or consider' someone or something in a particular way.