Word Finder - overlooked

definition

To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.

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Our hotel room overlooks the lake.

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To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.

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These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.

synonyms

• misheed

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To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.

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I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.

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• take no notice of

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To look down upon (something) from a place that is over or above.

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to overlook a valley from a hill

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To supervise, oversee; to watch over.

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to overlook a gang of laborers

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To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.

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To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

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• scrutinize

definition

To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

definition

Missed, unnoticed.

The apartment overlooked the beautiful blues and greens of the ocean.

They had simply overlooked the issue in their excitement.

If this be overlooked, a wrong impression may be derived as to the absolute amplitudes of the changes.

This point is dwelt upon, because the speed limitations of the hand-crane are often overlooked by engineers.

His life throws light on some phases of the ancien regime which are often overlooked by historians.

Nor were the Celts overlooked.

The significance of this observation was overlooked; and equally unheeded was a not less important discovery by Scheele in 1783.

Forbes (Ibis, 1881, pp. 360, 361) to inhabit the dry and open "sertoes" of north-eastern Brazil, a discovery the more interesting since it was in that part of the country that Marcgrav and Piso became acquainted with a bird of this kind, though the existence of any species of rhea in the district had been long overlooked by or unknown to succeeding travellers.

Many redirection services get overlooked by firewalls and blocking programs unless the administrator who set them up knows this method.

The window overlooked the neighboring mountain, coated in white with clouds clinging to its peak.

In developing a system of mensuration-formulae the importance of this latter group of cases must not be overlooked.

Owing to these controversies the real work of the early Irish missionaries in converting the pagans of Britain and central Europe, and sowing the seeds of culture there, is apt to be overlooked.

His bishop, Grindal, was his friend, and his vagaries were overlooked until 1566, when he resigned his living rather than conform.

These instruments are very sensitive, but care must be taken to avoid errors caused by changes in the relative intensities of parts of the source of light - a precaution that is sometimes overlooked in furnishing polarimeters with these analysers.

The place where the acropolis was entered was believed to have been overlooked by the mythical Meles when he carried the lion round his fortress to make it invulnerable; it was really a path opened by one of the landslips, which have reduced the sandstone cliff of the acropolis to a mere shell, and threaten to carry it altogether into the plain below.

But he overlooked the possibility of increasing the distance between the objectives; Camille Nachet introduced this improvement in 1875, but his instruments did not meet with much popularity.

Maybe Katie wasn't the only one who had been overlooked by Señor Medena when it came to inheritance.

Dismayed by the amount of fallen bodies wearing Tiyan's colors, Taran overlooked the messenger from the north the first time until he'd reached the walls.

Talented players often get overlooked in the hurley burley of the Championship.

The back yard wall overlooked the canal and over the canal was Nazareth House Convent.

But beside consistency checks, there are other, often overlooked, sources of complexity that are purely combinatorial.

The young people recognized the inherent danger of being overlooked, bullied or not achieving their potential.

The mind-numbing drudgery of office work should not be overlooked, of course.

One major factor scientists have clearly overlooked in this Bristol-based foursome 's case is the ability to harness the power of the riff.

The following morning an emergency glazier attended a car in the carpark which my window overlooked.

Sir Guy Dawber (1861-1938) is now largely overlooked by architectural historians but deserves to be better known.

A fact not overlooked by Burns but conveniently ignored by the Government.

Its distinguishing features are not always immediate obvious, and it may easily be overlooked.

What it overlooked was the imminent implosion of mobile phone prices.

But their coloring is rather inconspicuous and they can be easily overlooked.

The Influence of Tree Canopy An often overlooked point when calculating tree shadow lengths is the radial distance of the crown spread.

But what if these overlooked masterpieces were playing at your local picture house, in pristine prints with beguiling new advertising?

They are often overlooked by animal lovers looking to adopt a pet.

During this discussion we introduce a number of recent developments of gene tree parsimony methods overlooked by Simmons and Freudenstein.

Where railings overlooked the ravine with that mosque near the bottom of it another group stared intently down.

It is a small sea anemone that has probably overlooked before or incorrectly identified.

They see it as a real snub to be overlooked for the category.

The accumulated wisdom of parents, gained over many years, is completely overlooked.

But it must be confessed that (chiefly, no doubt, from paucity of accessible material) he overlooked many points, both of alliance and the opposite, which since his time have gradually come to be admitted.

Papineau had formerly professed a deep reverence for British institutions, and he had acquired a theoretical knowledge of the constitution, but he did not possess the qualities of a statesman, and consequently in his determination to apply the strict letter of the constitution he overlooked those elements and compensating forces and powers which through custom and usage had been incorporated in British institutions, and had given them permanence.

The ' The curious but apparently well-attested fact of the occurrence in England, near Poole, in June 1851, of a male bird of this species (Zoologist, pp. 3601, 3654) has been overlooked by several writers who profess to mention all cases of a similar character.

The curious legend, in which the fabulous origin of the so-called society was enshrined (that a certain Christian Rosenkreuz had discovered the secret wisdom of the East on a pilgrimage in the 15th century), was so improbable, though ingenious, that the genesis of the Rosicrucians was generally overlooked or ignored, but the worthy objects of the fratres were soon discovered and supported by several able men; the result being a mass of literature on the subject, which absorbs some 80 pages of Gardner's Catalogue Raisonne of Works on the Occult Sciences (London, 1903).

But the vagueness of the Hebrew knowledge is further shown by the fact that Belshazzar, alleged king, is announced as the son of Nebuchadrezzar (misspelled Nebuchadnezzar in the Hebrew writings), while the three kings that reigned after Nebuchadrezzar, and before Nabonidos usurped the throne, are quite overlooked.

The fact, however, must not be overlooked that while vegetarian societies claim as "vegetarians" all who abstain from flesh foods, there is a large and growing number of people who repudiate the name of "vegetarian" because of its associations, but who none the less, for some of the reasons detailed below, abstain from eating anything that has been killed.

The barberry's brilliant fruit was likewise food for my eyes merely; but I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, which the proprietor and travellers had overlooked.

In an effort to " do the deal " significant warning signs are frequently overlooked, disregarded, or rationalized away.

I have not put into this report every detail investigated but I am satisfied that no matter of significance has been overlooked.

The possibility of making variations in the layout without offending the doctrine of rebus sic stantibus should not, however, be overlooked.

Aid does have positive effects on growth, yet aid donors have mysteriously overlooked this positive potential and allowed Africa to stagnate for decades.

A simple model for superconductivity in this system is, in this model oxygen has been overlooked as it does not interact.