Meaning

1 senses

  1. As the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.

    dorky-looking

Origin

From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, pre

From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.

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Forms

lookings, lookinging, lookinged, lookinged
Base formlooking · to looking
3rd person singularlookings
Present participlelookinging
Past simplelookinged
Past participlelookinged

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylooking
he, she, itlookings

Past simpleLesson

all personslookinged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave lookinged
he, she, ithas lookinged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill looking

Word family

16 related words
Relatedcaught looking
Derivedgood-lookingA2backward-lookingbad-lookingfine-lookingforward-lookingfull-lookinghardlookingill-lookinginward-lookingnice-lookingonlookingplain-lookingunfortunate-lookingunlookingweird-looking

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lookA1lookerlookoutloomC1loon
looking — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto