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look into. inspect, examine, probe, investigate.
look on. see, witness; regard, consider, deem, view.
lookout, n. observatory; watch-tower, conning tower; responsibility.
look over. examine, scrutinize, reconnoiter.
look upon. regard, esteem, consider.
look up to. honor, respect, defer to, venerate, reverence.
look within. introspect.
loop, n. staple, noose, bight.
loophole, n. excuse, plea, pretext.
loose, a. unbound, disengaged, movable, unfastened, unrestrained, detached; relaxed; incompact, porous.
loose, v. release, disengage, free, disentangle, liberate; absolve, remit; relax, loosen, slacken.
loosen, v. relax.
looseness, n. laxity, slackness, relaxation.
loot, n. spoil, booty, plunder, prize; plundering, pillage.
loot, v. plunder, sack, rifle, pillage.
lop, v. cut off, obtruncate.
lopsided, a. unbalanced, disproportioned.
loquacious, a. garrulous, voluble, talkative.
loquacity, n. garrulity, volubility, talkativeness.
lord, n. n.o.bleman, peer, magnate, grandee; liege, suzerain.
lord, v. domineer.
Lord, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison.
lordly, a. overbearing, domineering, despotic, arrogant, imperious, uppish.
lords.h.i.+p, n. seigniory, dominion.
Lord's Prayer. Pater noster.
Lord's Supper. communion, eucharist.
lore, n. learning, knowledge, wisdom, erudition.
lorn, a. forsaken, lonely, solitary.
lose, v. miss, forfeit.
lose ground. retire, recede, retreat, decline.
loss, n. forfeiture. a.s.sociated Words: d.a.m.nific, d.a.m.nify, d.a.m.nification.
lost, a. forfeited, missing; derelict, adrift; misspent, misemployed, wasted; irreclaimable, incorrigible, abandoned; preoccupied, abstracted, absent-minded.
lot, n. destiny, doom, fortune, fate; portion, parcel, part, allotment; (Colloq.) much, many.
loth, a. disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, averse, loath, indisposed.
lots, n. pl. a.s.sociated Word: sortilege.
loud, a. deafening, stentorian, resonant, clarion; clamorous, vociferous, boisterous; gaudy, flashy, ostentatious, showy; emphatic, urgent, appealing.
lounge, v. recline, loll.
lousiness, n. phthiriasis, pediculosis, pediculation.
lout, n. b.o.o.by, boor, b.u.mpkin, lubber, gawky.
loutish, a. boorish, lubberly, gawky, ungentlemanly.
lovable, a. amiable, winsome, lovely, winning.
lovableness, n. amability, winsomeness, amiability.
love, n. affection, devotion, infatuation, pa.s.sion; amorousness, amativeness; Cupid, Eros, Venus, Aphrodite, Amorino; philanthropy; storge.
love affair. liaison (an illicit love affair), amour, intrigue.
love feast (of the primitive Christians), agape.
love-letter, n. _billet-doux_, _billet d'amour_.
lovely, a. charming, delightful, delectable, amiable, pleasing.
love potion. philter.
lover, n. amoroso, inamorato, swain, suitor, admirer, philander, gallant, beau, cicisbeo; paramour, leman.
loving, a. affectionate; enamored; amative, amorous, erotic.
