Synonyms for stare
stɛərstare

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. stare

   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, gaze, glance, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, survey, view, watch

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. stareverb

   a fixed look with eyes open wide

2. gaze, stareverb

   look at with fixed eyes

   "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"

   Synonyms:
   gaze

3. stareverb

   fixate one's eyes

   "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"

   Synonyms:
   gaze

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1. stareverb

   Synonyms:
   gaze, gloat, look intently, gaze earnestly

2. stareverb

   Synonyms:
   chickweed, star-wort

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1. Gore Vidal:

   The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

2. Fer:

   why can´t you realize the 1000 times I walk beside you the 2000 times I blushed when you are near the 3000 times I stared at you and blushed when you find out the 4000 times I tried to talk to you but I didn´t have an excuse the 5000 times that I dream of your smileand the million times I´ve found out that no matter how many times I walk beside you, blushed when you are near, stare at you, try to talk to you, dream of your smile you´ll never fall in love with me...

3. Ryan Mountcastle:

   I called it pretty late there, honestly, I didn't know Pat was over there. Here (at Tropicana Field) you can't really put your head down and run, you've got to stare at the ball the whole time so you don't lose it.

4. Anonymous:

   Obsessively hating something is still obsessing. Do not forget what happens when you stare into the abyss.

5. Jamaal Bowman:

   We have to stare White nationalism in the face, wehave to deal with it directly, not only through law enforcement, but by recognizing that White nationalism lives in every American institution.