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. Joe Zuniga:

   We’d go to the mall, and people just stare, she looks the exact same. She still gets hate mail about it. She hates the attention.

2. Thomas Ullmann:

   Jurors are looking the entire time, some glare and stare at the defendant the entire trial.

3. Richard Fidler:

   We’ve kind of approached a natural limit with how much we can stare down at screens. The next natural place for that screen to live is thoroughly integrated into what we’re seeing so we don’t ever look down at the screen because the world has become the screen, in some sense it’s horrifying.

4. Vivek Ramaswamy:

   We’re in the middle of this national identity crisis, where if you ask most people my age, really any age – what does it mean to be an American today? – you get a blank stare in response. And I think that is the vacuum at the heart of our national soul.

5. Unknown:

   Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.