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Synonyms for gaze
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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 11 votes

  1. gaze

    To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

    Synonyms:
    behold, contemplate, descry, discern, glance, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, stare, survey, view, watch

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.4 / 7 votes

  1. gaze

    Synonyms:
    stare, contemplate, scan, behold, regard, view, glower, gloat

    Antonyms:
    wink, ignore, overlook, ogler disregard, glance

Princeton's WordNet4.3 / 3 votes

  1. gaze, regardverb

    a long fixed look

    "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

    Synonyms:
    paying attention, wish, esteem, respect, regard, attentiveness, heed, compliments

  2. gaze, stareverb

    look at with fixed eyes

    "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"

    Synonyms:
    stare

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Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. gazeverb

    Synonyms:
    stare, gloat, look intently

  2. gazenoun

    Synonyms:
    stare, intent look, fixed look

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 2 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "gaze":

    look

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#79view
#446look
#871watch
#1089wish
#1288survey
#1701respect
#3876regard
#3956scan
#4440glance
#12073esteem
#13099inspect
#14248behold
#16957gaze
#17937stare
#19035compliments
#23715heed
#26968discern
#27578contemplate
#90030attentiveness
#92581gloat
#185507glower
#274347descry

How to use gaze in a sentence?

  1. Christina Rossetti:

    She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  2. Wesley D'Amico:

    Your gaze reveals your love only to those who know your soul.

  3. Simon Shaw:

    Modigliani creates a new kind of nude for the modern era, typically there's been a distance between the viewer of a nude and the way that the nude is represented. Here Modigliani puts them on a level. If you look at her gaze, the way she is meeting yours, she is very erotic, but she's very confident, she's very self-possessed in her sexuality, and that's something incredibly new.

  4. Alphonse de Lamartine:

    If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

  5. Amanda Gorman:

    We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man, and so we lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another. We seek harm to none and harmony for all.


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